On 14/06/12 02:45, James A. Donald wrote: > On 2012-06-14 6:00 AM, Brian Warner wrote: >> * overambition is still a big problem. > > Xanadu disease.
That's the oversimplified version of why Xanadu failed. There were many other factors, but the main reason why it didn't directly influence other systems (as a hypertext system) was that it was trade-secret. Note that a lot of ideas invented in the context of Xanadu, such as promises, *have* influenced later systems despite that. Indeed, although it wasn't successful commercially, as a research project you could consider Xanadu to have been wildly successful compared to the vast majority of research. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥
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