There was a long blog series on OT not long after the Google Wave that is linked from the Wave docs: http://blog.wavenz.com/2009/07/introduction-to-operational

There was a long blog series on OT not long after the Google Wave that is linked from the Wave docs: http://blog.wavenz.com/2009/07/introduction-to-operational.html http://blog.wavenz.com/2009/07/introduction-to-operational.h... http://blog.wavenz.com/2009/07/operational-transformation-algorithm.html http://blog.wavenz.com/2009/07/operational-transformation-al... http://blog.wavenz.com/2009/07/operational-transformation-and.html http://blog.wavenz.com/2009/07/operational-transformation-an... (full disclosure: I helped edit these)