That's what Apple is telling customers so far with respect to a flurry of vulnerabilities in OS X. The recommended fix for the vulnerabilities? Upgrade to Panther, the 10.3 version of the OS. Problem is, upgrading to Panther costs $129.
As of this posting, Apple has not released patches for these vulnerabilities for any previous version of the OS. They have stated publicly that they will not provide patches for obsolete versions of their products. Their tact has been, and continues to be: “We write patches for the current version only“.
Microsoft is just now phasing out support for NT4, but even then will continue to produce patches for critical security vulnerabilities for it for a while yet. And that OS is over 4 years old now. How old is version 10.2 of OS X? A year?
Bad form, Apple. Very bad form.
Update: Read more at news.com and silicon.com