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Did you actually read the article? Unlike its paper counterparts, online papers are subject to article edition or outright article deletion. That's what at st
by fifteen1506 3y ago
Did you actually read the article?
Unlike its paper counterparts, online papers are subject to article edition or outright article deletion.
That's what at stake.
Remember Orwell's 1984's newspaper article edition on the whims of the party's current views?
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- endisneigh 3y agoSo what? Code gets deleted too. Why do you think you’re entitled to versioning?
- randerson 3y agoThese articles not only record history but create history, in part by swaying public opinion. To edit an article years later so that its not what was originally published is a disservice to historians.
- endisneigh 3y agoCode from big tech definitely sways public opinion just as much or even more so by controlling what is seen and when as well as by who. So you agree then code should also be free?
- em-bee 3y agonot the same thing. more accurately, while i rarely have the need to run decades old software, i should have the right to. look at attempts to preserve old games. it's the same story. it should be legal to archive copies of old software. ideally with the source. that doesn't mean that the source should be free now, but it should most definitely be available once the copyright expires.
- endisneigh 3y agoSo you agree old code should be free?
- em-bee 3y agoonce the copyright expires it is obviously going to be free, yes. but someone needs to preserve the code until then.
- endisneigh 3y agoOk. You can give away your code now so it can be “preserved” and go into the public domain in 70 years. I prefer to get paid instead since freely available code is not going to be as profitable.
- em-bee 3y agoyou do not need to give away your code in order to allow it to be preserved. it could be locked somewhere, only to be made public after the copyright expires.
- afavour 3y agoIt’s both things, though. You can’t maintain an archive of content without bypassing the NYT paywall. To me the actual issue is a profit-driven business producing goods of important public value. There’s an inherent contradiction in there that doesn’t seem easy to solve.