One thing I find interesting is the "please don't back this up" mentality of some of the older gray area content.
I get it, you don't want (bigcorp, chinese clones, etc) causing you problems. But when you die, what happens? Who's going to be there to pick up the parts?
I feel like so many things should get hucked right onto Internet Archive as soon as someone says "please, no, don't" just out of pure self preservation.
Eventually the whole operation is just going to service a few odd museum pieces. The Macintosh II will sit alongside the Linotype machine, the Jaquard loom, the Watt steam engine, etc. The question is what you do between now and then.
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One thing I find interesting is the "please don't back this up" mentality of some of the older gray area content.
I get it, you don't want (bigcorp, chinese clones, etc) causing you problems. But when you die, what happens? Who's going to be there to pick up the parts?
I feel like so many things should get hucked right onto Internet Archive as soon as someone says "please, no, don't" just out of pure self preservation.
Definitely.
Archiving wouldn't go anywhere if we didn't ignore individuals for the benefit of humanity as a whole.
By all means, back it all up.
I do wonder what the tail end of this looks like.
Eventually the whole operation is just going to service a few odd museum pieces. The Macintosh II will sit alongside the Linotype machine, the Jaquard loom, the Watt steam engine, etc. The question is what you do between now and then.