Re:Why is the UK still printing its laws on vellum?
by tptacek on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @04:41PM
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Non-sequitur. The point of the thread is that it's not at all clear that reliable long-term storage is getting cheaper by the day.
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Re:Why is the UK still printing its laws on vellum?
by jsprogrammer on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @06:05PM
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Define 'reliable long-term'.
Roll-over to new tech is safe. The content of discussion is inherently reliable due to its digital nature.
Keeping multiple copies is necessary practice and the long-time trend is that the next copy you produce has no greater cost than the previous copy (if you wait years, it will be significantly cheaper).