It's too bad it's always existing companies that get their source leaked. Just once I'd like to see "Archive of Digital Equipment Corporation source code leaked online". I can dream...
> It's too bad it's always existing companies that get their source leaked. Just once I'd like to see "Archive of Digital Equipment Corporation source code leaked online". I can dream...
The problem is those companies are defunct, so their source repositories may not even exist anymore, let alone be online, e.g.:
> After searching the internet exhaustively, I contacted the Computer History Musuem and they didn’t have any either. They also informed me that apparently SGI destroyed Cray’s old software archives before spinning them off again in the late 90’s.
I know at my employer, there's always pressure to half-ass things that aren't directly connected to some mechanism for making money. We recently migrated our company intranet site from one vendor to another, and the team that was running that project it as a "feature" that they would help us "clean up" by not assisting us migrating anything older than one year. Similarly, source control migrations (of which we've done several) often drop history, since it's usually way easier just to download the latest version and check it into the new system than figure out how to migrate the metadata. IIRC, Microsoft's TFS-VC to git migration tool will only migrate something like 180 days of history.
