If I may, I would like to add some additional color here. When Samsung
first began to express an interest in acquiring Joyent, one of their first
questions was: "What is important to the team?" Samsung has made it very
clear to us that they view the Joyent team as a big part of the value here
-- and they wanted to make sure that the things that were important to us
were things that could be accommodated. (Or, if they couldn't, we would go
our separate ways and the courtship would end.)
So the three of us who were engaged in that conversation (namely CEO Scott
Hammond, VP of Product Bill Fine and me) each came back with our
priorities. As you can imagine given my Oracle (mis)experience, my top
priority was clear: that Triton, Manta, SmartOS and its surrounding
ecosystem remain open source. But what you might not realize is that Scott
and Bill (independently) shared that top priority: each of us had seen
clearly the commercial advantages of being entirely open source for the
past eighteen months, and no one wanted to turn back the clock. (Indeed,
Scott and Bill were critical in getting everything open to begin with.)
And what you might also not realize is that Samsung needed no convincing
on that front: they viewed us being entirely open source as a concrete
embodiment of the thought leadership that they admired in Joyent. In fact,
they pointed us to their budding open source track record as proof that
they understood and valued open source communities.
So what I said in my blog entry was entirely earnest: we can confirm
Samsung's commitment to keeping our platforms open -- and indeed, we would
have it no other way!
- Bryan
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 3:13 PM, John Burwell <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Ah, thanks. Enlightening.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Scott McWhirter <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Have a read of
>> https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent-a-ctos-perspective
>>
>> Has a good overview on what this means for smartos/sdc.
>>
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