The challenge of finding technical information
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| Gated communities include most of the developer programs and lots of
| sites that just want to have some idea of who is looking at their
| stuff. That is, the information is basically open-sourced in one
| form or another but the access to it is gated. A number of
| companies do this so that they can require the user to accept
| their license agreement before being granted access.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/012907-search-side.html?fsrc=rss-linux-newsd
Closing of the Web through formats or tiering (or even DRM) would create a
so-called "dark Web" that stifles sharing of information and hurts digital
retention.
Related:
Publish And Perish
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| Alexander Rose, the executive director of the futurist Long Now
| Foundation, worries about the impermanence of digital information.
| "If you save that computer for 100 years, will the electrical plugs
| look the same?" he asks. "The Mac or the PC--will they be around?
| If they are, what about the software? " So far there's no business
| case for digital preservation--in fact, for software makers like
| Microsoft, planned obsolescence is the plan.
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| "The reality is that it's in companies' interest that software should
| become obsolete and that you should have to buy every upgrade,"
| Rose says. We could be on the cusp of a turning point, though, in the
| way businesses and their customers think about digital preservation.
| "Things will start to change when people start losing all of their personal
| photos," Rose said.
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http://www.forbes.com/2006/11/30/books-information-preservation-tech-media_cx_ee_books06_1201acid.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/yyjqoh
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