Why are you assuming that the internet archive will be here in 20 years :-)
On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 8:32 PM Felipe Sanches <[email protected]> wrote: > There's a rather simple solution to that: stipulate that any link in > commit messages must be first saved on the Internet Archive's Wayback > Machine. That is as easy as pasting the original URL into a text field in > this page and clicking the "Save Page Now" button: > > https://archive.org/web/ > > 2017-08-14 21:44 GMT-03:00 ron minnich <[email protected]>: > >> This is an interesting headline: >> >> "I Bought a Book About the Internet From 1994 and None of the Links >> Worked" >> >> What's interesting? That's only 5 years before linuxbios started. I can >> make the totally unwarranted claim that the half life of a link is around >> 12 years. I justify this claim with one bogus data point, namely, this >> headline :-) >> >> But still, what's amazing is when I did a check, about 15 years after >> linuxbios began, about 25% of the links were in fact dead. So the 12 year >> number may not be great, but ... maybe it's not that bad either. >> >> And now you know why I don't like links in commit messages :-) >> >> ron >> >> -- >> coreboot mailing list: [email protected] >> https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot >> >
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