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Re:Why did OpenDoc fail, and then fail 3 more times? by pvg on Monday May 10, 2021 @02:23PM (#27109155)
I think the big reason OpenDoc failed is because it was completely steamrolled by Microsoft OLE 2

For that to be true, OpenDoc had to first be deployed and successful somewhere so OLE 2 could be said to have competed with it and to have won. Microsoft's office apps crushed Apple's office apps in the marketplace, etc. OLE 2 never really competed with OpenDoc, though, because no working (in any practical sense) OpenDoc anything ever shipped with MacOS. All the OLE 2 context seems pretty orthogonal, OpenDoc didn't even 'win' within the Apple platform.

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Re:Why did OpenDoc fail, and then fail 3 more times? by duskwuff on Monday May 10, 2021 @05:30PM (#27111105)
> because no working (in any practical sense) OpenDoc anything ever shipped with MacOS

Well, beyond that -- almost no OpenDoc software shipped at all. The first significant release was Apple's CyberDog web browser in 1996, and the OpenDoc project was cancelled in 1997.

Mac OS never really embraced OpenDoc wholeheartedly, either. It wasn't included in the default install of Mac OS, so most users were never exposed to it.

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Re:Why did OpenDoc fail, and then fail 3 more times? by pvg on Monday May 10, 2021 @06:05PM (#27111448)
Yes, I was mostly just being nice to OpenDoc.
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