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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Just a thought
From:       "Jacques Chester" <jacques.chester () student ! usyd ! edu ! au>
Date:       2000-07-17 10:23:13
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> Just a thought that crossed my mind, as I was viewing the
> konquorer.org web site.
>
[integration of browser in OS]

Sorry that this is a dead horse :)

> Don't tell me that Microsoft actually *did* innovate something! My
> world is crashing down about me, somebody please tell me MS stole
> the idea from KDE and not the other way around :-)

Look up Englebart (Englebert?). His early
work at the SRI predates and influences Xerox
and Apple. Part of his vision was integral
hyperdocument navigation and editing, far
closer to the "Xanadu" system (blergh) than
to what we now have.

His recent musings are summed up as an
"Open Hyperdocument System", or OHS. Try
searching for the "Bootstrap Institute" or
similar (my web access is down).

Very rarely are there new ideas. There are
usually just old ideas with new names and a
different haircut.

> Steven D'Aprano

be well;

JC.

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