Claim Infr - Inferno wins in Internet

The Claim

Lucent Technologies has proposed Inferno for use by the Internet community. Some comments attributed to Rob Pike entitled Inferno: la Commedia Interattiva have indicated that Lucent feels that Inferno is a strong competitor to Java from Sun Microsystems.

Limbo is a new interpreted programming language developed at Bell Labs which claims to solve a number of problems in modern programming practice.

The claim is YES if an Inferno-based platform is replaces the Java/Netscape platform as the ubiquitously available Internet standard.

To be ubiquitously available

1. Netscape must support Limbo-compiled applets on an equal-basis with Java-compiled applets on some platform listed in Subclaim 2;
2. There must be ports of Inferno and therefore Limbo and thereforeDis to at least following platforms:
   1. Windows 3.x
   2. Windows 95
   3. Windows NT
   4. MacOS 7.5 (or later)
   5. OS/2
   6. Solaris 2.X
   7. SunOS 4.X
   8. DECstation Ultrix
   9. DEC Alpha OSF/1
   10. DEC OpenVMS
   11. SGI IRIX
   12. HPUX HP-9000/700
   13. 88open DG AViiON
   14. IBM RS/6000 AIX
   15. SCO i386
   16. Intel SVR4 UnixWare
   17. Linux
   18. BSD (any)
   For a port to `exist' it must either be
   • available for downloading off the Internet or
   • for sale with immediate delivery at some price.
   The availability Limbo-compiled applets in Netscape as per #1 shall be construed to satisfy this section.

• $0.60, for the capability described in Subclaim 1.
• $0.02, for each platform referred to in Subclaim 2.
  • with a premium of $0.04 paid for all platforms.

Judge's Statement

I will judge based on the wording of the claim unless it is found to be ambiguous. Such ambiguities will be resolved based on my perception of the author's intent.

The Market

Price Plot for life of Infr

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