[1]jwz: Infocom:
Jason Scott just posted all of the Infocom source, which is
glorious!
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Zarf summarizes:
"This material has been kicking around for a while now. If you
search for articles about "the Infocom drive", you'll see some
discussion from years past. Actually, don't do that, it's mostly old
arguments that don't need to be rehashed.
The point is that a great deal of historical information about
Infocom has been preserved - but it's not publicly archived. You
can't go research it anywhere. Nobody admits to having it, because
it's "proprietary IP", and you're not supposed to trade in that
stuff because companies like Activision make the rules.
So when Jason puts this information online, he's taking a stance.
The stance is: history matters. Copyright is a balance between the
rights of the owner to profit and the rights of the public to
investigate, discuss, and increase the sphere of culture. Sometimes
the balance needs a kick.
Quite possibly all these repositories will be served with takedown
requests tomorrow. I'm downloading local copies for myself tonight,
just in case."
If you're in a mirroring mood:
curl
"
https://api.github.com/users/historicalsource/repos?page=1&per_page
=100″ | grep git_url | cut -d \" -f 4 | xargs -L1 git clone
Read on for a fun fact.
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My original entry is here: [2]jwz: Infocom. It posted Thu, 18 Apr 2019
22:17:15 +0000.
Filed under: culture,
References
1.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/04/infocom/
2.
https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=2719
