How would anything ever advance if you had to continually support progressively older hardware and software?

It can also be used outside of games, for example to support cartographic software.

He publicly confessed not understanding much about computer terms, but supported license-free software as part of a stronger market economy.

It has supported free software in government, open access for the Internet, and privacy regulation.

As a whole the community refuses to support proprietary software.

In addition to audio files, it also supports sharing of other media as well as software.

Vendors don't support specific hardware and software in perpetuity.

He also supports free software and open spectrum.

They also did not support popular software like Microsoft's Windows Media formats.

That is, the features that will be essential in the future, but that are very hard to add while still supporting existing software.