Who decides? Popularity and economic benefit? So we get to keep Call of Duty video games, but apps that benefit a niche industry or are simply not very popular but considered important should be left behind? In other words, my Mona Lisa isn't your Mona Lisa.
Not too long ago, maybe the mid/late 1990's, we had this battle with deteriorating celluloid from the earlier stages of Hollywood. The studios were happy to let many old movies that were never transferred to VHS or DVD just wither away because the cost of transfer would never be recouped. I remember a lot of petitions and outrage and the studios reversed their policy (perhaps with grants or other funding, I don't recall). It was a small controversy and most of those movies weren't critically acclaimed, but some were and they were all part of history.
Not sure how well this analogy transfers to software but it always makes sense from a practical and moral perspective to save everything than to curate a few, especially in the age of automation and cheap computing.
Who decides? Popularity and economic benefit? So we get to keep Call of Duty video games, but apps that benefit a niche industry or are simply not very popular but considered important should be left behind? In other words, my Mona Lisa isn't your Mona Lisa.
Not too long ago, maybe the mid/late 1990's, we had this battle with deteriorating celluloid from the earlier stages of Hollywood. The studios were happy to let many old movies that were never transferred to VHS or DVD just wither away because the cost of transfer would never be recouped. I remember a lot of petitions and outrage and the studios reversed their policy (perhaps with grants or other funding, I don't recall). It was a small controversy and most of those movies weren't critically acclaimed, but some were and they were all part of history.
Not sure how well this analogy transfers to software but it always makes sense from a practical and moral perspective to save everything than to curate a few, especially in the age of automation and cheap computing.