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lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month agoThey already have it.
I said alternative to SO. As in, likely, a place to post new content (answers, comments). Nothing can really be done with the content OAI already got their hands on other than firing off a few well-placed EMP bombs.
Miaou@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Yes, but you mentioned importing old content is problematic, and I don’t see why?
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Because to import old content, you have to respect the old license (or get every contributor of back-then to relicense). That would mean having a site with contents under differing licenses depending on date, which is something the corpos can use as an excuse to continue siphoning everything without consequence.
I’m fine with a mirror / archive of SO. But it shoudl very definitively be a different thing than an active SO alternative, and their users and data storages should be also different.