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Thursday, October 31, 2002

Over at the Open Source Application Foundation, Andy Hertzfeld (the brilliant designer behind the original Macintosh and the "Nautilus" GUI for Linux) has just pulled back the curtain on "Vista", the first prototype of OSAF's new personal information manager.

Hertzfeld goes to great lengths to point out that "Vista" is not in any way a version of the actual product OSAF hopes to build; instead, it's a testbed for ideas, a proof-of-concept. But it's fascinating to watch the design process of this new app take place right out in the open, with minds like Hertzfeld and Mitch Kapor driving it along.

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