To be clear, we at the time had already hired people with deep familiarity with Linux at the time this decision was made. In particular, Laura Abbott, as one ex

To be clear, we at the time had already hired people with deep familiarity with Linux at the time this decision was made. In particular, Laura Abbott, as one example. It is true that the number of developers that know Linux is larger than the ones that know illumos. But this is also true of the number of developers who know C as the ones who know Rust. Just like some folks need to be onboarded to Rust, some will need to be onboarded to illumos. That is of course part of the tradeoff.