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Buy once, use forever A directory of one-time purchase software

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222 points richbowen | 1 comments | 30 Mar 25 00:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.22s | source
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ghaff ◴[30 Mar 25 01:08 UTC] No.43520251[source]▶
Unless it's (maybe) mainfraame software, your software is going to break with an OS update. O you can maybe keep it working for a while in a VM, but the idea that you'll keep a software binary working forever is, for practical purposes, mostly silly.
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erwincoumans ◴[30 Mar 25 01:25 UTC] No.43520367[source]▶
Windows backward compatibility counter example: Paint Shop Pro 7.04 still works great here after almost a quarter century.
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1. hypercube33 ◴[30 Mar 25 01:53 UTC] No.43520536[source]▶
Somewhere buried on the Microsoft site there is a page that says they are committed to getting any 32bit windows software or above working and they have a separate support team for. I assume they are the Compatibility team.