Comment Re:A couple of things (Score 1) 511
[...] there's no record anymore of what the document said before the change. The paper copies in my drawer can't be changed and I can pull them out to prove that yes that was what was originally specified.
This is an issue, but it can be mostly resolved with versioning filesystems like Files-11 or maybe even ZFS snapshots. I can't even tell you the number of times I've made changes to a document then wish afterwards I still had the original version...