&gt; you are asking for service support for life<p>No.  What I&#x27;m asking for is to not have <i>arbitrary</i> restrictions imposed on me if I try to maintain old software beyond its service life.<p>For example: I have a legally licensed copy of Snow Leopard.  I would like to be able to run it on a VM, but I can&#x27;t because the license doesn&#x27;t allow it.  (Yes, I know I can run Snow Leopard Server on a VM -- and I do -- but Snow Leopard Server is not quite the same as Snow Leopard.)<p>I also have a legally licensed copy of Mavericks, but I have no way of doing a clean install of Mavericks since it has been pulled from the App Store.  (Yes, I am told that some people have Mavericks in their purchased tab in the App Store.  But I don&#x27;t, probably because I bought a machine that had it already installed.)  Likewise for iPhoto.<p>I would also like to be able to install a new version of an application while keeping the old version.  Or at the very least I would like to be able to roll back to an old version if I don&#x27;t like the new version for some reason.  With the App Store, I can&#x27;t do any of these things.