Joyent won, that's how. If this rumor is indeed true, it means Bryan's vision and perceptiveness beat Larry, albeit indirectly. Joyent's SmartOS is built on il

Joyent won, that's how. If this rumor is indeed true, it means Bryan's vision and perceptiveness beat Larry, albeit indirectly. Joyent's SmartOS is built on illumos, and illumos is a fork of Solaris Express / OpenSolaris / ONNV, and a whole bunch of former Solaris kernel engineers, who were at key positions at Sun Microsystems, and are now across several successful companies, still commit fixes and features into the illumos source code. For example, illumos has OpenZFS and KVM, two major features Snoracle Solaris doesn't have and can't take back unless they open source the code again, not that anyone cares what they do.