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"why does software require maintenance, it's not like it wears down"

Because software is not generally useful for any inherent good; what matters is its relationship with the surrounding context, and that context is in perpetual change.

alcinnz

@chris__martin And if there's no other context, there's at least the context that operating systems keep changing. And they need to if for no other reason that hardware keeps changing!