Even then, who cares. Software developers didn&#x27;t have to explicitly support BSD, if there was a BSD user who cared enough they&#x27;d work on getting your package in the ports tree. If there was a Debian or Red Hat user that cared enough they&#x27;d make a .deb or .rpm. None of this has changed, what <i>HAS</i> changed is library and application developers deciding to say &quot;screw people using existing releases, I&#x27;m only putting bugfixes and security updates in the newest release so anyone still using 1.x and caring about stability can sod off&quot;.<p>I package software I care about, but libraries in particular are notorious for not maintaining any semblance of ABI or API compatibility even between minor releases these days. It&#x27;s increasingly difficult to support this when I have to rebuild or update multiple applications that depend on a library because they decided to make huge breaking changes in a point release or they won&#x27;t provide any bugfixes for the major release I&#x27;m still on.