The foundation of the web is the ability to embed links from one page to another page.  When writing about one topic, and you want to cite another work as a reference, the best possible way to do this is to make a like to that work: the reader can instantly load and view that other page.  But what about link rot?  What about when the link become broken, because the page on the other end is moved?  Last week I made a proposal to eliminate link rot, but this post is about the the right to use it. Continue reading →