Brian, I see the Samsung acquisition as an enormous benefit potentially to illumos. Having a company of their size and potential is huge.
I am not worried about them closing anything up. Your words ease concerns but also we know from the Oracle experience that the community could carry on. Indeed the situation is better because the upstream is already in community hands. My biggest concern is that Samsungs interest in the platform remains high. At present their investment seems to strongly indicate an intention that is positive support. I only hope business considerations don't cause that to change. Congratulations and best of luck to all of you at Joyent and I look forward to hearing more about Samsungs plans for the future! Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 16, 2016, at 2:17 PM, Bryan Cantrill <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > smartos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
