Originally Posted by take 
frankly I like Oly's bold move on innovation, but I just don't like Oly develop a new lens system base on micro 4/3, and i see the need of using a mFT flange adapter for normal 4/3 lens could be solved somehow. So that the existing user can use back their own lens without the adapter.
If you read the release you will see that Olympus
will offer an adapter for current lenses, so they
will be compatible with micro 4/3.
This is one of the best things about their plan, IMO. One set of lenses, two different body designs.