M.L. wrote:

> Commonly used F/OSS RCS is going to be locatable 25 years from now.

Whenever people make predictions that far into the future, I try to
think that far back -- and it always ends the same way: what people
thought 25 ago about what would happen 25 years later isn't necessarily
a good match with what is happening today. I extrapolate this to today
and think that what we'll have in 25 years won't necessarily be what
people (including me) today think it will be.

>From that, I derive the simple rule: When you have archives that you
want to be able to read in the future, keep around what you need to read
them -- be that FOSS, OSS, CSS, FS, OSes, drives, whole computers,
whatever. And do try to read it in regular intervals to make sure it all
still works.

Gerhard
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