Editing OpenDoc (section)

===Cancellation===
OpenDoc had several hundred developers signed up. Apple was rapidly losing money at the time and many in the industry expected the company to fail.

In March 1997, OpenDoc was discontinued with the return of [[Steve Jobs]] to Apple, who had been at [[NeXT]] during its development. He said Apple's management "put a bullet through [OpenDoc's] head", and most of the [[Apple Advanced Technology Group]] was laid off in a big reduction in force.<ref name=cnet97>{{cite web | url=http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-lays-off-thousands/ | title=Apple lays off thousands | first=Dawn | last=Kawamoto |author2=Anthony Lazarus | date=March 14, 1997 | work=CNET News.com | access-date=April 24, 2007 }}</ref><ref name=techCrunch97>{{cite web | url=https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/06/jobs-focus-is-about-saying-no/ | title=Jobs:Focus Is About Saying, No | author=Erick Schonfeld | date=October 6, 2011 | work=TechCrunch.com | access-date=October 6, 2011 }}</ref> Other sources noted that Microsoft hired away three ClarisWorks developers who were responsible for OpenDoc integration into ClarisWorks.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bob/clarisworks.php | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102041305/https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bob/clarisworks.php | title=A Brief History of ClarisWorks | archive-date=January 2, 2020 | author=Bob Hearn |author-link=Bob Hearn| date=2003 | work=Bob Hearn's website | access-date=April 24, 2007}}</ref>

Since [[Mac OS 8.5]], OpenDoc was no longer bundled.<ref>{{Cite web|author=Apple Inc.|title=Technical Note TN1142: Mac OS 8.5| url=http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1142/index.html | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990420004517/http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1142/index.html | archive-date=April 20, 1999 | date=October 26, 1998 | access-date=August 21, 2022}}</ref> [[AppleShare|AppleShare IP Manager]] from versions 5.0 to 6.2 relied on OpenDoc, but AppleShare IP 6.3 eliminated this, as the first Mac OS 9 compatible version, released in 1999.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60659 | title=AppleShare IP 6.3 Does Not Require OpenDoc | author=Apple | date=December 18, 2003 | work=Apple Support | access-date=April 24, 2007 }}{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Apple officially relinquished the last trademark on the name "OpenDoc" on June 11, 2005.