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Episode 538: Roberto Di Cosmo on Archiving Public Software at Massive Scale

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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What Is the Point of an Archive?

Internet Archive was set up to help preserve source code of software. Not just the web pages, but also operating systems and video games. It is not only open source free software that you archive. Even if it is not open source, people can still read or look at what's going on.

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