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[kyralis]

Can we really blame OpenDoc for anything, though? It seems more sad than impactful, honestly.

[robocat → kyralis]

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc

Interesting because everybody was competing: but competing for a concept that is now largely obsolete because it failed?

Some modern competition (e.g. AI) has a similar feel.

[sokoloff → kyralis]

OpenDoc did at least provide part of the question’s premise for one of my favorite Steve Jobs answers:

https://youtu.be/oeqPrUmVz-o?si=1n-rkSke_ezLcidn

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I was on Usenet at the time and Apple also had a newsreader. There were post from Mac users with Mime encoded messages that everyone else hated.