[$] The need to reliably preserve our community history
The Internet is a wonderful thing; it allows anybody to look upinformation of interest. Included in all of that is the history of thefree-software development community; how we got to where we are says a lotabout why things are the way they are and what might come next. So thetakeover of Groklaw rings a loud alarm; we have been reminded that historystored on the Internet is an ephemeral thing and cannot be expected toremain available forever.