5 Feb
2007
5 Feb
'07
2:51 p.m.
On Feb 5, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
When it comes to business records, it's often to the firm's advantage
to strictly observe the "statute of limitations" rule and shred
everything after 7 years. Records older than 7 years can be
subpoenaed to demonstrate a pattern of behavior. Best not to have
the old stuff around.
Well, best for companies to BEHAVE THEMSELVES in the first place,
but I guess that won't be happening anytime soon, at least not in
America, Inc.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
What do government and corporate data archives do?
Surely a long-lived company like IBM has already
had to deal with
this
problem?
They deal with the problem by throwing things away. There are
essentially
no corporate archives of software older than a few decades. This
goes back
to the discussions here a while back about companies discarding
software
after a product's life ends.