[HN Gopher] Corporations Are Crappy Archivists
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       Corporations Are Crappy Archivists
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2021-08-28 18:22 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | sitkack wrote:
       | > More than 100 boxes of the two men's writings, correspondence,
       | speeches and other items were contained in one of two modular
       | buildings that burned to the ground at the Fountaingrove
       | headquarters of Keysight Technologies. Keysight, the world's
       | largest electronics measurement company, traces its roots to HP
       | and acquired the archives in 2014 when its business was split
       | from Agilent Technologies - itself an HP spinoff.
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       | https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/business/hewlett-packa...
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       | I would recommend folks upload material like this that they want
       | archived to both archive.org and bitsavers.org
       | 
       | While a corp might have copyright, they _don 't_ have the right
       | to have these cultural artifacts lost to the sands of time.
        
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