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by helloiamsomeone 689 days ago
Software is in fact eternal. Maxwell’s Equations of Software (Lisp) is still a thing to this day [1]. Even for software designed for arcane architectures. You can simulate the Apollo Guidance Computer and its software today [2], which got people on the Moon. Technological progress must never come at the expense of people's rights.

[1]: https://github.com/jart/sectorlisp [2]: https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/