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History: open software in education :: Open source, standards and architectures in education. Current question: would OpenDoc be available if it was open source? Weblog 5 entries 06-Jun-2005 1 authors
show or hide details for this item Would OpenDoc have succeeded if it was completely Open Source? Blog Entry 2 replies 06-June-2005 Mike Malloch
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OpenDoc was a multi-platform software componentry framework standard for compound documents which IBM and Apple almost brought to the desktops of the world in the mid-1990s. Would an Open Source OpenDoc have succeeded?
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Opendoc Logo OpenDoc was a multi-platform software componentry framework standard for compound documents which IBM and Apple almost brought to the desktops of the world in the mid-1990s. It failed in the sense that robust implementations never became available. It is fondly remembered by developers and designers who had experience with it. Many of us feel that it might have dramatically improved the content and interactivity for e-learning.

The question I want to put here is: Would an Open Source OpenDoc have succeeded?

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What do you think? Would Open Source have saved OpenDoc? Discussion Topic 0 replies 06-June-2005 Mike Malloch
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Would OpenDoc have succeeded if the project had been thoroughgoingly Open Source?

As wikipedia notes, OpenDoc was one of Apple's earliest experiments with open source development methods. Apple and its partners did not release the source code for wide reuse, but did make the complete source available to developers for feedback and for testing and debugging purposes.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc.

Would OpenDoc be here now if it had been Open Source in a more thorough sense at the time?
Do you have experience of working with OpenDoc? Discussion Topic 0 replies 06-June-2005 Mike Malloch
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Did you ever work on OpenDoc parts, editors or containers? Can you share your experiences?

Please let us know what your own experiences of working within the OpenDoc framework were like. Was it a positive experience? If not, was this because of implementations or architecure?