An Engineer’s Guide to the Docuverse

Re:An Engineer’s Guide to the Docuverse by imglorp on Monday September 10, 2018 @10:28AM (#17952024)

Secrecy. Patent minefields. Alien ideas. It might be the cat's meow, but small wonder why its advancements are still obscure and inaccessible.

The things we DO know and use daily were developed in the clear, in a public, cooperative environment. Furthermore, implementations were often protected by GPL or other means to keep them from disappearing into an IP hole.

This might be the most important lesson of the project.

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Re:An Engineer’s Guide to the Docuverse by azeirah on Monday September 10, 2018 @01:08PM (#17953261)

Unfortunately, you're totally right.

I like Ted Nelson a lot, mostly because I relate to his chaotic way of thinking, and I admire his ideas, and the work he puts towards making his ideas reality even more so. Yet, even in his more recent content, he's still stubborn as ever, anyone who wants to simplify his ideas to appeal to a mainstream audience "doesn't get my vision".

He's had great ideas, great visions, but he shoots himself in the foot with hi is approach.

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Re:An Engineer’s Guide to the Docuverse by zormino on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @12:16AM (#17957132)

Not to mention an open and sharing oriented community that implements their projects in commonly used languages. Check out the Udanax gold downloads page and try not to cry. http://udanax.xanadu.com/gold/download/index.html

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Re:An Engineer’s Guide to the Docuverse by imglorp on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @11:55AM (#17960859)

Urf, that's rough.

On the plus side, this is an interesting project: http://www.erights.org/index.html

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