datahoarder
Who are we?
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.
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This is stupid, how is it stealing your work I'd you document a file format or create a extractor and someone else uses it, why the fuck are you making it then?
Open source is for the benefitting everyone , being selfish like this makes no sense, and I'll be glad to not let that knowledge vanish into the ether because someone thinks their work that has been up for public access for years is suddenly "proprietary"?