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January 29, 2003
Slashdotting Wayback: Slashdot ran a
Slashdotting Wayback: Slashdot ran a story yesterday, "Archive.org Deploys Macromedia Software Titles", saying that 10,000 "Made With Macromedia" CDs were available for downloading at the Internet Archive -- that the work of independent developers was being redistributed for free. The incoming traffic took the archive down for awhile. I stayed out of the discussion because I was working at home on an article, and besides, lots of other people were talking about it anyway.... ;-)
Actually, last June the good folks at the Internet Archive accepted a list of 10,000 CD-ROM titles that had come through the "Made With Macromedia" program. They also contacted the developers of five of those titles for making the actual contents available on the archive. CD delivery is an important distribution method, both historically and today, and I really appreciate that this list is now publicly available. The content itself is not in distribution, but the slice-in-time view of CD delivery is now public, instead of locked away in our vaults. Bob Tartar has more info, and Brewster Kahle has responded directly to the thread... if you've got additional comments or concerns then you can reach Macromedia staffers directly at mwmarchive-at-macromedia.com (convert to email addy). Thanks!
(btw, this section of the Internet Archive is fascinating... they've really put a lot of work into cataloguing and making available a history of CD-ROM delivery. Now that it's alive and un-Slashdotted again, please take a long around -- great stuff!)
Posted by John Dowdell at January 29, 2003 11:31 AM
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