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[ILUG] Storing for Historical Record? (OT)

[ILUG] Storing for Historical Record? (OT)

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Tue Oct 1 19:01:03 IST 2002


Quoting Padraig Brady (padraig.brady at corvil.com):

> In 100 years it will be extremly difficult to get hardware to read CDs
> for e.g. What format did they put the data on voyager on the laser
> disc?

I predict that the first interstellar war will be caused by the aliens'
refusal to pay MP3 patent royalties to Thomson Multimedia.

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