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It was acquired by Samsung, which is notoriously bad at open source. But the reason why it quietly faded into the background wasn't that. It was that Joyent's e
by rjzzleep 9mo ago
It was acquired by Samsung, which is notoriously bad at open source. But the reason why it quietly faded into the background wasn't that. It was that Joyent's ex Sun people had an annoying elitism that made them not care about working with the community.
- linksnapzz 9mo ago(citation needed)
- boricj 9mo agoIt was acquired again in 2022 by MNX [1]. [1] https://www.tritondatacenter.com/blog/a-new-chapter-begins-for-triton-and-smartos https://www.tritondatacenter.com/blog/a-new-chapter-begins-f...
- ofrzeta 9mo agoMany/Some of them are now working at https://oxide.computer https://oxide.computer https://oxide.computer/blog/engineering-culture https://oxide.computer/blog/engineering-culture
- itsanaccount 9mo agoI mean when you're that far ahead of the class is it any wonder?
- solaris2007 9mo agoIn 2014 and 2015 I was able to make some great things happen because of the people (mostly former Sun people) in the #smartos and #illumos IRC channels on Freenode. They were very helpful. Maybe this is because I put actual thought and effort into my questions and didn't waste their time with stupid questions (ones already answered in documentation or found in mailing lists). https://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html