Why? Fundamentally, because Doug suggested WBI.
From: Eric Armstrong <eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com>
> It occurs to me to reopen the question, why WBI?
>
> It appears to me that we had several goals in pursuing
> that avenue:
> 1) Show people what it would be like to use one
>
> 2) Use a "fast track, first cut" system ourselves, to
> help design the next generation
>
> 3) Begin producing a code base we could evolve from.
>
> Were there any other goals that the WBI proposal achieved?
>
> Here is my take on matters, at the moment:
>
> 1) We have identified a large number of existing
> projects that appear to be moving down a parallel
> track. One or more of these may well provide a
> sufficient demo of the capacities of such a system.
>
> 2) Because they already exist, one or more of those systems
> may be more useful to us than one we build ourselves,
> because we don't have to wait until it's built before
> we can use it, and it gives us more food for thought on
> what we would do better.
>
> 3) Experience with page-annotation systems suggest that
> email-based conversations are still the norm, which
> suggests that the annotation-model is missing something
> very fundamental with respect to human usability.
>
> 4) Without the preliminary analysis and fundamental design
> work to identify what it is we really need to build, we
> are liable to invest a lot of time and energy in efforts
> the culiminate in a virtual dead end.
>
> That said, I'm still open to a discussion of what the WBI
> proposal is, what it buys us, and why we want to pursue it.
>
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