Why we need a software museum

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26 points·martinvanaken··13 comments

It would be really interesting to have one of those, a physical building with proper archiving and curatory.

About the fear losing our knowledge of good and bad practices, open source software itself can serve that purpose, most major projects being well documented with both development manuals and discussions from the community.

We do!

Computer History Museum http://www.computerhistory.org/ runs Software Preservation Group http://www.softwarepreservation.org/

Software Preservation Group already collected some impressive archives.

Awesome! Didn't know about those, thanks for the tip.

It is not especially the fear of losing knowledge, more about opening our industry and what it does.

It would be dominated by the chamber of horrors.

http://thedailywtf.com/

You see : we clearly have enough stuff to fill a museum.

May be it can push us so have a little less horror to show ?

We'll have less horror to show when clients and project managers stop setting unrealistic deadlines and stop changing requirements every step of the way.

Hey now, it sounds like you haven't embraced the Agile way.

Next you'll be looking for specifications and time to do the work properly.

So you have used iTunes today as well?

I see a sign in the museum: "Please don't touch the software"

Offtopic: the list for the meta information is missing an overflow hidden or something.

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