Santiago Peressn

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since December 28, 1999

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January 10, 2000, on Software Pricing:
some of the ideas in this page reminded me of the OpenDoc project at Apple, which seemed to be quite a good idea. the trick (as far as i rememeber) was not to work with programs but with documents, and use small & simple 'editor' modules (or 'viewers' if you didn't want to edit the contents) that were called when you clicked on each part of them. i find myself sometimes working on projects that have multiple programs involved, and this would be a great way of working. i.e: the first section has some text & tables describing the idea, next section some math and programming code, then another with some images, etc. and the 'modules' would be much more cheaper than a full program, less disk-space-hungry, easier to update and develop, etc. add to this open-source and you get quite near the ideal.