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> 10y old professional software still works exactly the same now as 10 years ago

Great point for Windows. iOS, Mac, and Linux evolve too much to reliably run 10 year old binaries.

you can usually get away with it by chrooting an old release of a distro that has contemporary libs. And this is rarely needed as you usually have the sourcees available under a free license which allows you to recompike and/or port it.

We are talking photoshop anyway so it isn't relevant in that case.

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