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Right, I'm not speaking against GOG or id Software. They run businesses and it seems like a totally reasonable decision to exclude these. Doesn't change the fact though, that it is good to have the original releases properly archived.

It's not really a new situation. We've dealt with tons of cases like this and generally decided that it's not a good idea to remove media from history because we've found their authors to be horrible people. Contexts, like the one you described, should only add to the history, not remove from it.




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