“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.”