When details of a piece of "open" software are so easily lost I shudder to think about the vast quantity of "closed" software that have had their history lost.

When details of a piece of "open" software are so easily lost I shudder to think about the vast quantity of "closed" software that have had their history lost. I also kept thinking about how the term "software archaeology" (which I first saw in the 1999 Vernor Vinge novel "A Deepness In the Sky") becomes more and more mainstream each day.