I can't answer all your questions, because I don't actually work on helios, but I do have an answer to some of them: > Do Oxide folks run illlmos workstations

I can't answer all your questions, because I don't actually work on helios, but I do have an answer to some of them: > Do Oxide folks run illlmos workstations or is this all developed in Virtual machines or SSHed to servers? I wrote about this topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39181727 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39181727 That said, some folks certainly run illumos on a workstation. > Why MPL? GPL compatibility? On MPL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39181844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39181844 That said in that comment I didn't really speak to the "why." We feel like it's a good compromise in the possibility space: more copyleft than BSD, but also less restrictive than the GPL.