[tahoe-dev] Resurrecting Mojo Nation

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

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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