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software rot

deterioration of software quality over time due to accumulated bugs or changes in environment or dependencies
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software rot

Summary

software rot ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (170 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • software rot's subclass of is recorded as degradation[2].
  • software rot's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q150 (fra)-X-Javier-Dégradation logicielle.wav[3].
  • software rot's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/065893[4].
  • software rot's different from is recorded as data degradation[5].
  • software rot's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/1z2crr7rp[6].
  • software rot's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 104172830[7].

Why It Matters

software rot ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (170 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . lingualibre.fr. lingualibre.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). software rot. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/software-rot
MLA “software rot.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/software-rot.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_software-rot_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{software rot}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/software-rot}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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