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> the business biting off more than it can reasonably chew It's hoarding behavior. They paid "a lot" of money for it, have no idea how to further exploit it,
by akira2501 2y ago
> the business biting off more than it can reasonably chew
It's hoarding behavior. They paid "a lot" of money for it, have no idea how to further exploit it, but can't shake the feeling that it might be massively valuable one day.
The only difference is they pay someone to hold their hoard for them.
- eitally 2y agoAlternatively ... they are forced to maintain it for compliance reasons, especially when it comes to healthcare, finance and other regulated industries (defense, in particular). This even applies to manufacturing companies assembly medical devices and defense products: all the data about the supply chain, the engineering designs & changes, the manufacturing and quality testing, and shipment needs to be kept for XX years and is subject to both audit by regulatory agencies and to legal discovery.
- akira2501 2y agoThose are all things which can be printed out and stored in alternative forms and possibly even recreated from other data. It's also the case that much of that data will never be permanently at rest and so several archive copies of the data exist. Recordings of performances are an entirely different category of artefact.