> And, it turns out, illumos was born at exactly the right moment: shortly after illumos was announced, Oracle — in what remains to me a singularly loathsome an

> And, it turns out, illumos was born at exactly the right moment: shortly after illumos was announced, Oracle — in what remains to me a singularly loathsome and cowardly act — silently re-proprietarized Solaris on August 13, 2010. I was very curious about this, and stumbled on further details in https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/lisa11/tech/slides/cantrill.pdf https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/lisa11/tech/slides/cant... on page 15. But read the entire PDF anyway, it's interesting.