Inferno cuts away the complexity in designing distributed computing applications.
The world needs a new network operating system, because there are a lot of poor ones out there that are too complex or too restrictive. In fact, the notion of bribing janitors to procure wastebaskets full of secrets about the lobbying habits of Microsoft allies harkens back to the skullduggery of the Nixon era, which should be of little surprise considering the fact that the investigative agency which handled the espionage, one Investigative Group International , is led by a former Watergate investigator. The reason Microsoft would have been treated differently if they had been the ones accused of investigating others is the same reason Microsoft's business practices are viewed differently when practiced by other, lesser corporations. The point of the Microsoft antitrust case, largely, was not that Microsoft the software corporation was behaving inappropriately. The point of the Microsoft antitrust case was that Microsoft the monopoly was behaving inappropriately.