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Reuters: Xanadu project to open source

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 26, 1999

“After 40 years, some of the ‘longest-running vaporware project’
will be open to developers.”

“Software developers can now get a first glimpse of one of the
computer industry’s longest and most storied software projects —
still unfinished after almost 40 years.”

“Eccentric inventor Ted Nelson said this week he would make some
of the software code for his Xanadu project — a conceptual
precursor of the World Wide Web — available to the open source
development community, where programmers have free access to a
software program’s code over the Internet, allowing them to make
changes to improve the code and test it for bugs.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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