Это и так и не так... Основан на работах Витра так или иначе. Но автором компонентного каркаса он не был. Я думаю, что тут Денис либо сам стал жертвой заблуждений, либо это такой маркетинговый ход, привлечь известного человека в текст для презентации бизнесу.

А так то основные авторы перечислены в документации.

BlackBox Contributors

BlackBox is based on the foundation laid at ETH Zürich by the professors Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht (Oberon language and system), Hanspeter Mössenböck (Oberon-2 extensions) and several former research assistants, e.g., Régis Crelier, Josef Templ and Stefan Ludwig. At Oberon microsystems, the following (current or former) employees have contributed to BlackBox:

- Beat Heeb
- Cuno Pfister
- Clemens Szyperski
- Thomas Amberg
- Daniel Diez
- Christian Di Giorgio
- Marc Frei
- Dominik Gruntz
- Matthias Hausner
- Stephan Koch
- Ivan Posva
- Bengt Rutisson
- Wolfgang Weck
- Jürg Wullschleger

The following members of the BlackBox community have contributed to BlackBox:

- Werner Bossert
- Werner Braun
- Chris Burrows
- Robert D. Campbell
- Oleg N. Cher
- Marco Ciot
- Doug Danforth
- Ivan Denisov
- Koen Desaeger
- Ilya Ermakov
- Ivan Goryachev
- Alexander Iljin
- Boris Ilov
- Ivan Kuzmitski
- Wenying Luo (Luowy)
- Gerhard Marent
- Gérard Meunier
- Rainer Neubauer
- Katarzyna Regent Nguyen
- Roman Miro (Romiras)
- Manuel Martín Sánchez
- Wojtek Skulski
- Dmitry Solomennikov
- Eugene Temirgaleev
- Josef Templ
- Andrew Thomas
- Fyodor Tkachov
- Bernhard Treutwein
- Igor Dehtyarenko (Trurl)
- Eric Wehrli
- Mathieu Westerweele
- Helmut Zinn

(We hope that this list is reasonably complete at least for the more recent releases of BlackBox, otherwise we apologize.)