GitHub Places Open-Source Code In Arctic Cave For Safekeeping

'GitHub's CEO Nat Friedman traveled to Svalbard in October to stash
Linux, Android, and 6,000 other open-source projects in a
permafrost-filled, abandoned coal mine. It's part of a project to
safeguard the world's software from existential threats and also just
to archive the code for posterity. As Friedman says, "If you told
someone 20 years ago that in 2020, all of human civilization will
depend on and run on open-source code written for free by volunteers
in countries all around the world who don't know each other, and it'll
just be downloaded and put into almost every product, I think people
would say, 'That's crazy, that's never going to happen. Software is
written by big, professional companies.' It's sort of a magical
moment. Having a historical record of this will, I think, be valuable
to future generations." GitHub plans to open several more vaults in
other places around the world and to store any code that people want
included.'

-- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/11/13/2155230

Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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