The TAB report on the UMN affair

I've seen links to web pages and pdf files saved in content management systems (such as what is used by the Linux Foundation) that have become inaccessible because when the CMS is changed, the links break. When you migrate to a new CMS, maintaining old links links is *hard*. You would think that would be easier to just dump pdf files into a static directly and let that be served up by Apache, but for large organizations, it's hard; the people who manage content generally don't have the technical ability (nor would it be safe!) to give them ssh access to the organization's web server. This is why large organizations use CMS systems, whether it's WordPress, or Drupal, or other systems.

All things considered, Drive links have a likelihood of being stable more than many other alternatives. If people really cared, I suppose the another good alternative would be archiving them in a git repo. When you push it out to some git server, such as github or gitlab, it's still not guaranteed to be stable (both of those are companies that could go away, or the user's account where the git repo was hosted could go away for any number of reasons), but at least it would be easier for multiple copies of the archive to be easily replicated. Does the Internet Archive support archiving git repos for posterity? Maybe it's something they should consider.