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Insight is a wonderful concept, that's the way documentation ought to
be presented. Who needs paper anyway...

The format of the SGML documents should be published and accessible
though, so that everyone can add books without having to use external
service bureaus. If the format is closed, Insight might suffer the same
fate as the license server.

The license server was also an interesting idea, but it was sold in a
way that makes it unusable for anyone except SGI. The license server
developer's tools are $10k on my list, and I am not aware of a single
third-party software that uses it (undoubtedly there are some (Frame?),
but it certainly hasn't become the universally accepted way of selling
software). In fact, the company I work for has looked at it, shaken its
collective head, and written a proprietary license server.

Wouldn't it be great if everything - third-party software manuals, TeX
manuals, Webster's (I can dream, can I?), even /usr/man, and of course
the jargon file :-) - would be available as InSight books? Let's hope
legal obstacles won't prevent that.

BTW, is there a way to show the pictures directly in the document, the
way NeXT's digital librarian does it, rather than to hide them in an
icon? Optionally, maybe?

Thomas
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