Ben Hyde is calling me an old fart because of my nostalgia for OpenDoc. I guess you could call it nostalgia. I think it's more than that. In his post, Ben points out that it was difficult for Apple to gain adoption for OpenDoc because it threatened the business model of existing ISV's. We don't have that problem in the same way on Linux. Yes, we have existing apps. But the authors of most of the Gnome apps don't have a business model (except maybe for Ximian). So there's the potential to remove that barrier to adoption. Also, I think that we are ready for a compound document like system -- microcontent is going to drive it. Whether it's the whole system or whether there's a compound document container application, doesn't really matter to me. Ben thinks that the inter-machine issues have taken precedence over the intra-machine ones. I think that the next step that we'd like to take in capitalizing on the inter-machine capabilities that we have, will necessitate improvements in the intra-machine area. In terms of big picture ideas, open source is running out of things to copy. Here's something that hasn't been done yet.