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Letter: On the search for the oldest working code (2)

Published 26 March 2025

From Danny Dresner, University of Manchester, UK

Matthew Sparkes’s evaluation of our reliance on old code is spot on. I imagine organisations ought to think about software support agreements they are paying for, as it is likely that some companies collecting annual fees no longer have the available expertise to solve any problems arising. All code is broken. When we are lucky, it is decommissioned before the vulnerabilities manifest and are exploited.

Issue no. 3536 published 29 March 2025

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