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2:34:11 Owning non-physical (want to say: digital) things is tricky business. You own it exclusively as long as you keep it for yourself. The moment you share/give/copy it to somebody else, he owns his copy of your data and you own your own, but it's not shared ownership or exclusive ownership. The traditional model of ownership allowing some form of exercising control over the thing ends in the digital world, mere possession is indistinguishable or is not recognizably different from owning it as well, which are developed as separate concepts for physical goods.
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2:28:46 I'm not aware of an indication that Doug Engelbart was particulary concerned about that aspect.
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Fair enough, but then there are other important aspects like the ViewSpecs/metacompilers and what not. Also, I think the "nothing gets deleted", authorship tracking, availability of versions and hence links never getting stale are just the pragmatic, most easy way of avoiding that changes break his references, that pages have to be removed from the printed Journal, etc. If you want to do it better, it might require much more work than mandating/dictating through policy/contract that you can't delete/change. Also, on the global network, additional measures would be required to enforce it, while it was easier to do in the one-computer NLS.