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I'm worried about this being posted on Google Docs. What happens when Google Docs gets shut down or migrated into some sort of other service and this document i
by rocky1138 10y ago
I'm worried about this being posted on Google Docs. What happens when Google Docs gets shut down or migrated into some sort of other service and this document is not migrated? This sort of thing should be on a mailing list, methinks.
- kondro 10y agoYou mean because you think that a service with 3 million paying organizations and the core part of Google's strategy to get greater adoption in enterprise and schools is going to disappear?
- rocky1138 10y agoIt's possible, but what I'm actually thinking about is more along the lines of lock-in. For instance, Writely, which was the service Google bought to make it into Google Docs, had a migration period where, before you opened a document in Google Docs, you had to convert it to the new format. It's a form of bit rot. Over time, stuff on proprietary services become less and less useful. I tried archiving this Open-RethinkDB meeting notes document using archive.is (a very common archiving service) and you can see the output is broken so you can't archive it: https://archive.is/?run=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1cTqKt1_EBanGoVmYyahdLyDD8dhCa0SdD0CbjbP67f8%2Fedit https://archive.is/?run=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%... Ask: How will we read this in 10 years?