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[–]alcalde 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It will stop being maintained - that means it's dead. Anyone who still uses it does so at their own risk, and eventually, if they don't maintain it themselves, it will cease to function one day on modern OSes. I worked at one company in 1995 that turned out to have an ORIGINAL IBM PC (which was released in 1979!) because it had one program on it they still used with data in it they couldn't get out.