There is a difference between what is for sale, and "support," yes? So, only a few current versions are for sale, and now support is limited to versions only going back to Version 11. I'm with TheBryster in that this doesn't strike me as "the greatest act of theft of any software house". Almost all software vendors have to cease support for really old versions of the software, in no little part because operating systems (such as for Apple and for Windows) evolve, and hardware becomes obsolete. It becomes impossible for a software house to "support" early versions which work only on now-unsupported versions of Windows for example. Or which can't function on the only currently available nVidia graphics drivers and hardware, for another example. I think we have to be realistic about this.

As another example, as a vendor of Vue "stuff," I'm having trouble trying to make some products available for Vue version 7. I know a good person on a very limited pension who has only Vue 7, and has been pleading with me to make some of my stuff work on that old Version of Vue. I'd love, love, love to be able to do this, but I can't even buy the hardware pieces to make a computer, let alone the old version of Microsoft Windows need to make this possible. (And I build my own computers, so if anyone could do this, it ought to be me!) But it is frankly impossible for me to build a rig that will run Vue 7, even though I've kept the software (since I go back to "Vue 1.00). I don't even want to think about the kind of nightmare it would be to try to port some of my products back to that old version.

So, I agree that this constant modernization process is painful and hurts a lot. Really a Lot! But, dang, some things are just not possible nor reasonable!