Wouldn't VM's be better though
Apple's and Oranges comparison.
Now also just becuase you have docker on you're old af distro it does not mean shit will work
It's your job if you are getting paid six figures to get it to work. No one really cares how you go about doing it.
becuase i would say thats how you can fix a lot of problems on older distros.
Maybe, but if you are messing with older SSL versions and you start upgrading or downgrading those to compile your new software, that library touches so much software. You could in theory compile newer software against older versions of SSL, at the risk of introducing vulnerabilities, you also probably will run into porting issues, which probably somebody already fix, but you are doing it again for no reason.