A conversation requires not just a request but also a response. Here it is:
<< No thanks, we’re not interested in investing effort in making sure you can use our software on operating systems newly released 17 years from now. Please fund our efforts by purchasing a new version once every 10 years. >>
What does it matter? Companies don’t build software to last forever and they especially do not care about what happens after they go out of business.
Things don’t last forever. Software vendors won’t support everything forever. Middleware and operating system vendors won’t keep the albatross of supporting old things around forever.
If you want, you can keep running an old version of Mac OS X as long as you want. Just don’t expect Apple to support it.
<< No thanks, we’re not interested in investing effort in making sure you can use our software on operating systems newly released 17 years from now. Please fund our efforts by purchasing a new version once every 10 years. >>