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Did you actually read the article?

Unlike its paper counterparts, online papers are subject to article edition or outright article deletion.

That's what at stake.

Remember Orwell's 1984's newspaper article edition on the whims of the party's current views?



It’s both things, though. You can’t maintain an archive of content without bypassing the NYT paywall. To me the actual issue is a profit-driven business producing goods of important public value. There’s an inherent contradiction in there that doesn’t seem easy to solve.


So what? Code gets deleted too. Why do you think you’re entitled to versioning?


These articles not only record history but create history, in part by swaying public opinion. To edit an article years later so that its not what was originally published is a disservice to historians.


Code from big tech definitely sways public opinion just as much or even more so by controlling what is seen and when as well as by who. So you agree then code should also be free?


not the same thing. more accurately, while i rarely have the need to run decades old software, i should have the right to. look at attempts to preserve old games. it's the same story. it should be legal to archive copies of old software. ideally with the source. that doesn't mean that the source should be free now, but it should most definitely be available once the copyright expires.


So you agree old code should be free?


once the copyright expires it is obviously going to be free, yes. but someone needs to preserve the code until then.


Ok. You can give away your code now so it can be “preserved” and go into the public domain in 70 years. I prefer to get paid instead since freely available code is not going to be as profitable.


you do not need to give away your code in order to allow it to be preserved. it could be locked somewhere, only to be made public after the copyright expires.




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