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- IgorPartola 16y agoAnother example of this is the Python 2 to Python 3 transition. Python 3 is just too radical a change. Many features from it were backported to 2.7 to make the transition easier.
- chime 16y agoI think the Wave protocol had a similar problem. I decide to make an agent and just going through all the detailed protocol stuff discouraged me from digging in right away. I figured if it becomes big, I'll jump in again. On the other hand, I learnt plain-text SMTP as a kid and over time picked up MIME, TLS/PGP etc.
- mhald 16y agoThe Xanadu versus HTML choice is more complicated than the number of innovations. The Xanadu vision made you buy into the authors POV whereas HTML didn't.
- ivanstojic 16y agoOn a semi-related note, one of the interesting parts of the Xanadu rule set was this: Permission to link to a document is explicitly granted by the act of publication.
- anamax 16y ago> Permission to link to a document is explicitly granted by the act of publication. No one thought that you needed permission to cite someone else's work before the intertubes. A link is an actionable citation, but the action is under the complete control of linked-to site which presumably owns relevant rights to the document in question.