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  • @Aurix
    2•1 year ago

    Because this will happen to Windows 10, 11 and so on as well. And at some point Windows will make breaking changes for some software in perhaps a decade or more, even if only overall very minor. We need and should think about preservation of cultural goods.

      • @Aurix
        2•1 year ago

        Strengthening the open source community is not completely equal to archival missions. Keeping existing data available and usable is very different than rewriting code.

          • @Aurix
            1•1 year ago

            The music CDs and DVDs in the library are most often proprietary, too, but they don’t suddenly disappear.