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Software Archaeology

Posted by timothy on from the keeping-bits-unburied dept.

Plug1 writes "Salon (day pass needed) has an article about preserving software for historical purposes. It discusses source code archiving, and the effect the DMCA is having on attempts to catalog and analyze legacy code. It will be a shame if in the future a wealth of information is locked away because knoweldge of the underlying technology is lost."

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  1. Just a thought you guys.... by zapp · · Score: 4, Offtopic

    Unless I am mistaken Salon, like most websites trying to make some money, is having financial problems.

    They changed to a registration/fee based model, but allowed 1 day passes for whatever reason.

    Nothing can hurt them more than being slashdotted by a bunch of people using a day pass.

    someone has already copied the contents of the article into a comment which is good because it saves them bandwidth, but ... without their permission isn't that plagiarism?

    This is why things like the DMCA and DRM come about - people thoughtlessly violating other people's copyrights/etc, and/or taking their services for granted.

    I'm no better than anyone else, I do the same thing.

    I guess my point is: either support the people who provide services you enjoy (music, video, news, web content, porn, whatever), or quit complaining when they finally start defending themselves.

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