[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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(TXT) w3m dump (www.pcjs.org)
| 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
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| 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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