You can freeze the code but you can't freeze the changing requirements imposed on the code by its environment. Think: changing legal requirements (GDPR, etc.), security and privacy issues (2x the attack surface), prod environment evolutions, etc.
And then you need to include the cost of maintaining the transitive dependencies of your legacy code which aren't used by anyone anymore. And the cost to everyone who has to special-case your legacy code from company-wide changes because you can't evolve. And ...
1:08 AM - 27 Jul 2019
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