From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60512131354j7c7d732ey5e92d94e9ed430cb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:54:43 -0800 From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno? In-Reply-To: <2b721dad31e6038e58c46a4d1cdc36cd@9netics.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_7766_13519063.1134510883164" References: <3e1162e60512131249i49d2afc4j288797d7033ceb7e@mail.gmail.com> <2b721dad31e6038e58c46a4d1cdc36cd@9netics.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: c43784c4-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_7766_13519063.1134510883164 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On 12/13/05, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote: > > > The subject of this thread is about MS Research reinventing Inferno... = I > > think that's a good indication some people thought it was "merely" > > derivative :) > > it was a question, hence the '?' > > my point, as i clarified later, is the lack of acknowledgement for > prior work. the victors write the history. how the majority > perceive the history, becomes reality. btw, the first i saw the concept of combining resources, services and > files in a name space, was plan9. am i wrong? > > I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm saying that I don't think many ideas are truly "original" to begin with. Just combinations of past ideas in new way= s perhaps. Wish we could convince the patent system of that. ------=_Part_7766_13519063.1134510883164 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline

On 12/13/05, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@= 9netics.com> wrote:
> The subject of this thread is about MS Research reinventing Inferno...= I
> think that's a good indication some people thought it was "= merely"
> derivative :)

it was a question, hence the '?'

my point, as i clarified later, is the lack of acknowledgement for<= br>prior work.  the victors write the history.  how the= majority
perceive the history, becomes reality.

&n= bsp;

btw, the first i saw the concept of combining resources, services and
fi= les in a name space, was plan9.  am i wrong?

=


I'm not saying you're wrong.  I'm saying that I don't th= ink many ideas are truly "original" to begin with.  Just com= binations of past ideas in new ways perhaps.

Wish we could convince the patent system of that.
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