From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: References: <3c6bafeb2c3a70a2ac873b2b75a08955@coraid.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <85BC95D2-4629-4FB0-A2FD-34B2BF9387F7@lanl.gov> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: andrey mirtchovski Subject: Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno? Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:55:39 -0700 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: c3eced24-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> That's the Oberon part. > > Some of that is true, but they do more checking than > Oberon, and they can verify the bytecodes they ship around > while Oberon could make no such guarantee about its binaries. > > Russ i thought the problem was that they didn't reference other systems. i don't think anyone claims their work is purely derivative.