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I mean I still buy and play games that were made 20+ years ago. Shame they have so many bugs we can't really fix.

I don't buy websites that were made 20 years ago. Almost every commercial site has seen multiple rewrites in that timespan.

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For many old games, it's not even certain whether the source code even exists any longer. I'm always impressed with the sometimes herculean efforts that fan communities will achieve to patch and fix old abandonware games.

IMHO, this is a failure of the copyright model. All information required to build software should be required to be escrowed at release.

The thing is, when a game is shipped, it won't be updated for more than 5 years usually (I think 5 years is pretty long for games actually).

But I often have to work on website code made 10 years ago. THe fact that it's used does not matter much. The interesting difference here is how long will the code be maintained.

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