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Then it’s up to those that care to preserve languages they care about. I for one am not an advocate that there be no one preserving languages or dedicating their lives to preserving languages. That’s a wonderful thing to do, and we have a tool that they can use to encode those languages for all time in a way that is functionally accessible to all for all time.

Reading the thread I don’t notice any proposal of an alternative. Without that I will still hold onto the idea that we can improve things with the miracles we create in our technologies. While corporations might not feel a profit potential here, surely the open source world has shown we don’t need corporations to do amazing things.



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