Re: Re: North American YF-93A penetration fighter
Stargazer2006 said:
Why so? What logic is there to withhold non-strategic, declassified material of historic significance? ...
Probably just money, as you cannot keep an archive without labour, especially not, if it shall be
freely accessible for people from outside the company/organisation
Stargazer2006 said:
That price would have to include the payment of the staff delegated to the archive. So for the officials,
those questions are simple arithmetics. How many researchers can be expected per year ? Whats the
maximum charge they would be willing to pay ? What's the cost of the archive per year (remember the personal
costs) ? And pretty sure, the final number would be prohibitive for most of us. And with this knowledge,
it's no surprise, that companies in most cases keep their hands off. Probably we should be thankful for every
document, that at least is kept somewhere in such a company, in a folder a cardbox or the broom closet, instead
of being sent directly to the recycler. The way companies are run, even that broom closet is causing costs ...
I still think, most companies actually ARE acting in a logical way and that's just the problem. Their raison d'être
is to make money and for this reason they are following their three golden rules: 1. Cutting costs, 2. cutting costs
and 3. cutting costs ....
As long, as archives won't help to achieve one of those points, they are just a liability.
Maybe that in some cases there may be ways by offering a cost-free clear-out, with the "garbage" later brought to
a public museum or the like ? Could perhaps give a positive image to those companies ...