• @Aurix
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    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.

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      • @Aurix
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        26 months 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.

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          • @Aurix
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            16 months ago

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

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