Pretty sure old VGA shit doesn't transfer metadata about themselves.
Pretty sure it did. DDC has been a thing since forever. It certainly existed on VGA.
BorgDrone
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This is a solved problem.
A company going out of business and customers losing access to their IP is a very common concern for software businesses. The common way to deal with this is using an escrow service.
A copy of all the IP (e.g. source code) relevant to a license is stored at the escrow service (and regularly updated if necessary). If the supplier goes bankrupt, the escrow service is authorized to release the IP placed under escrow to the customers.
You could do something similar for Steam. Pay a 3rd party to keep a copy of all content that is authorized to release it if the original company goes out of business.
Job protections and guarantees for workers displaced by automation
Jobs are a necessary evil, not a goal in itself. The goal should be to eliminate all jobs.
Until that time we should figure out a better way to share the burden of the work that nerds to be done as well as better way to distribute resources. Trying to preserve jobs is not the way.
That’s why all my ‘smart’ appliances are in a separate VLAN with strict firewall rules limiting access to the bare minimum.
The first version of DDC is from 1994