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Originally Posted by mldavis2
Unless you're interested in becoming your own archive, there is not much reason to invest time and space in trying to save every bit of text you've ever read or written. Speaking strictly as a reader (authors may feel they are exceptions), I can't begin to read everything I want before my time runs out. I seldom if ever re-read a book because I'm haunted by lists of 'must-read' material beckoning me to open the first page.
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That is true for yourself, but if you look beyond the horizon, what about the ones coming after us in 50, 100, 500 years? Do we really want to shut them out of everything that written in our time because of missing backward-compatibility?
Just one example: Lord of the Rings was published in the mid-1950s, but it still has a lot of fans and created a very successful movie series 50 years after publishing. With an attitude not caring about backward-compatibility, none of that would have happened and barely anyone would know it. And this is just one example out of entertainment literature. If I think about politics, history or philosophy...