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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. Re:MY first program by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 0, Troll

    10 print "Reindeer are good shags"
    20 print chr$7
    30 goto 10

  2. Then it should be free. by nurb432 · · Score: 0, Troll

    If the ads pay for it, i should be given the news paper and TV for free, to 'view' their fucking ads.

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