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IP: Re: A request from the Wall Street Journal
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 00:55:44 -0400
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 21:50:00 -0700 From: Dennis Allison <allison () shasta Stanford EDU> To: farber () cis upenn edu Subject: Re: IP: A request from the Wall Street JournalFrom: "Gomes, Lee" <Lee.Gomes () wsj com> Could you do me a favor and try to help correct the erroneous report that MS-NBC somehow doctored a story of mine to remove some supposed anti-Microsoft references? ,,, MS-NBC simply used an earlier version of the story,,,,Looks like Ted Nelson was on pint when he specified that Xanadu system incorporate a facility for tracking multiple versions of a document. Here's a real world case where a verisoning system that tracks the evolution of a living document (Lee Gomes' article) would have helped avoid confusion and misunderstanding. -dra
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