Comment by alganet

I'm not confident you would be able to recognize a valid source if you saw it, and I'm not confident you understand what I claimed.

Let me sum up this:

Rich text OT, first appeared in Google Wave, and eventually became the technology used in collaborative editing in Google Docs. That is a fact.

What if it was made by another team?

It doesn't matter. Rich text OT, first appeared in Google Wave, and eventually became the technology used in collaborative editing in Google Docs. That is a fact.

What if they discarded the entire Wave codebase?

It doesn't matter. Rich text OT, first appeared in Google Wave, and eventually became the technology used in collaborative editing in Google Docs. That is a fact.

What if both teams were researching the same stuff?

It doesn't matter. Rich text OT, first appeared in Google Wave, and eventually became the technology used in collaborative editing in Google Docs. That is a fact.

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Up until I mentioned OT, there was room for ambiguity. Was I talking about the _product_ becoming Google Docs or the _technology_ being used in it? The onus was on me.

As soon as I clarified the issue, you should have recognized what I was talking about. You didn't.