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Uncovering progress in FOSS-based archeology (NewsForge)
NewsForge looks
at free software and archeology. "The discovery of the free
software philosophy and development model in archeology is a consequence of
several methodology problems that caused what some call the "great crisis"
of archeology. According to researcher Benjamin Ducke, "Since the 1990s
... there has been a lot of development on fundamental quantitative methods
but no software to put them into practice on a broad scale." However, Ducke
continues, today there is much more awareness of what is possible and
needed, as well as the notion that free software and formats can play an
essential role. Many researchers have realized that proprietary archeology
software is a dead end from many points of view, both scientific and
economic."
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Uncovering progress in FOSS-based archeology (NewsForge) Posted Jul 1, 2006 9:32 UTC (Sat) by Dom2 (guest, #458) [Link] Amusingly, free software is also good for computer archeology. When the source is available, you can find out how something worked (given time). With proprietary software, once the hardware is gone, you're stuffed.
Digging up bits Posted Jul 3, 2006 0:57 UTC (Mon) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054) [Link] Actually, that's what I thought the title referred to. Had to read the blurb to be disabused.
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