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Best papers/talks/etc about why OpenDoc failed?

Christoph Labacher

@chlabacher

May 3, 2021

I found this article from someone who was there to be very insightful:

gregmaletic.wordpress.com

OpenDoc

Back in 1995, my first job at Apple was as a Product Marketing Manager for OpenDoc. “OpenDoc” was a terrible name for an interesting technology. Instead of requiring developers to write…

Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

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@chlabacher

Boy, this is outstanding.

@gregmaletic

, I didn’t know you’d been involved! Thanks for this.

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There also appears to be an article titled “Lessons learned from OpenDoc” by Dave Curbow, one of the interaction designers working on it. Unfortunately I can’t find a copy anywhere and his website is down: rdcurbow.net/David/Articles