In his document
http://www.treelight.com/software/collaboration/requirements.html Eric
Armstrong says about Attribution:
A better alternative, if feasible, would be attributions attached to every
phrase in the node. That requirement creates a third category of containment
for the node, consisting of the text that makes it up. When originally
created, there would only be one long phrase, and it's author. When others
make changes, the text would be broken up into segments. That's the same
architecture most editors use internally, anyway, but it would require
storing a lot more information, putting it together to display the node, and
taking it into account when copying and pasting.
This is Ted Nelson’s passion. An investigation of the Xanadu documents will
likely turn up more than we could imagine on how to do this. Nelson viewed
the attributed quotation mechanism as the basis for a royalty scheme that
would pay authors for the amount of their work that was viewed no matter
what document it was quoted in.
Thanks,
Garold (Gary) L. Johnson
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