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Re:Why did OpenDoc fail, and then fail 3 more times? by bombcar on Monday May 10, 2021 @10:59AM (#27106649)
The web has mostly removed the need - but pre-web the ability to have embedded objects in documents was powerful, if tricky to implement correctly.
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Re:Why did OpenDoc fail, and then fail 3 more times? by toyg on Monday May 10, 2021 @11:34AM (#27107165)
... and a security nightmare.
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Re:Why did OpenDoc fail, and then fail 3 more times? by bombcar on Monday May 10, 2021 @12:26PM (#27107796)
Oh sure, but this is when computers were basically independent machines, and rarely, if ever connected to anything beyond a LAN.
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