On 12/13/05, Skip Tavakkolian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ways perhaps.
Wish we could convince the patent system of that.
