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Preservation of GNU/Linux History
When Groklaw's author decided to retire having already written a great deal about UNIX and Linux history she said: "I've read now what Groklaw members advised me, and I've decided. I think we need to use this time to perfect our work and ensure Groklaw's preservation. It will require shutting down the daily articles and News Picks, at least for the forseeable future, but I'm convinced it's important to do it. One of the core purposes of Groklaw has always been to create a reliable record for historians and law schools to use our materials to teach and inform."
Groklaw's domain has since then been hijacked by scammers, but the Wayback Machine does not forget:
Linux Journal became a slopfarm, many pages in Linux.com are vanishing (the Linux Foundation destroyed the ssite), and many other sites that go back to the 90s lost their integrity.
Unlike books (in some library), on the Web there is typically one copy. When some Linux.com article vanishes, then one must only hope that Wayback Machine retained a copy of it.
Large corporations that try to hijack (to control) everything - including narratives - like to tell us lies about history. That is a big problem. █