But it remains mum on the search
programming code and the user interface. Already one such open
source group (called Dela News) is coalescing, although it is
not clear who will bear the costs of the gigantic storage and
processing such a project would require. Dela wants to have a
physical copy of the archive deposited in trust with a dot
org.
This raises a host of no less fascinating subjects. The Deja
Usenet search technology, programming code, and systems are
inextricable and almost indistinguishable from the Usenet
archive itself. Without these elements - structural as well as
dynamic - there will be no archive and no way to extract
meaningful information from the chaotic bedlam that is the
Usenet environment. In this case, the information lies in the
ordering and classification of raw data and not in the content
itself. This is why the open source proponents demand that
Google share both content and the tools to access it. Google's
hasty and improvised unplugging of Deja in February only
served to aggravate the die-hard fans of erstwhile Deja.
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