Comment Why is this so bad? (Score 1) 382
I know that some data is really important ("critical") on a short-term view. But why is so important to keep so much information for so long? Of course, we should protect a few things (good and bad) for future archeologists.. But this is not the point here.
Archeologists and historians will always wan't to know more than what we have kept for them. That's their job.
We should just face the fact that we can't archive everything. And that even archives can (and sometimes do) get destroyed.
When data get lost, we should see this some very good occasion to reconstruct what was fragile, redesign what was poorly done the first time. Don't tell me how much that cost and how much work has been lost and all that crap.. :) I mean, we will all die someday, and our data should die someday too. We should not impose our trash on next generations.
What is [seen as being] good will survive. And if it doesn't survive, it will be re-invented. As the system goes, this might just be a very nice way to get new patents and suck the blood out of your neighbour.
Archeologists and historians will always wan't to know more than what we have kept for them. That's their job.
We should just face the fact that we can't archive everything. And that even archives can (and sometimes do) get destroyed.
When data get lost, we should see this some very good occasion to reconstruct what was fragile, redesign what was poorly done the first time. Don't tell me how much that cost and how much work has been lost and all that crap..
What is [seen as being] good will survive. And if it doesn't survive, it will be re-invented. As the system goes, this might just be a very nice way to get new patents and suck the blood out of your neighbour.
