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Software Archaeology

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. fp d00ders by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. LOUD SUCKING SOUND EMANATING FROM BUFFALO, NY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    DAILY REMINDER: Hillary Clinton doesn't just stand by...she actively works to offshore American High-Tech!

  3. Salon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What does it mean that I need a gay pass? I thought salon.com went out of business a while ago anyway. This is probably a trojan whores anyway.

  4. My first .NET program by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    namespace gay
    {
    class gayness
    {
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
    while(true)
    Console.WriteLine("Slashdot is gay");
    }
    }
    }

    1. Re:My first .NET program by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I think this program would loop endlessly, as it will always be true that slashdot is gay.

      This program would also work while(true) "Linux is gay."

  5. CVS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
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  6. Re:Heh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh so I take it the moderator who modded the post down thinks DOS WILL be useful, what a fucking genius.

  7. PARENT IS A TROLL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How dare you mention copyright as if it was a good thing. Information wants to be FREE!!! I want music, movies, AND articles free, free, FREE!!

    +5 Insightful for me, -99 Troll for YOU! LOSER!

  8. I AGREE WITH THIS POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  9. Re:Explain the Pyramids? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Actually, you get to see peoples racism when they talk about the pyramids - especially when they start talking about the nubians and their pyramids.

    They come up with wild theories about spacemen and visitors and shit, because they cant accept the fact that black folks could pile rocks in a specific geometric arrangement.

    Of course, noone doubts that druids (white) built stonehenge, they're just curious what advanced knowledge it represents. It couldnt simply be a place where they sacrificed sheep to the peanut god - no that's something blacks would do.

    Of course, it goes along with all the legends of egyptians mummifying folks alive and having sex with cats and this and that.

    Anyhow.

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

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

  11. 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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