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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:04:18 +0100
From: Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno?
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On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:26:20AM -0500, LiteStar numnums wrote:
> Let's see, first there was the Cyclone clone (Vault C), now there is a
> Plan9-ish/EROS-ish kernel...
> Before all of this was "Active Directory" (Kerberos/LDAP)...
> The 'research' seems to be focused upon many things already released into
> the wild &
> brining them to the point of being 'Microsoft' products...
[...]

as always done since decades...

... someone who knows F#?

It's a (not lossless) copy of Ocaml.
Ocaml lost OO-layer, but got .NET attached and then this is called
F#. ;-)

But there should be hundreds of other examples on how to get rich with
the idea of non-lossless copying by that company. ;-)

Ciao,
   Oliver