illumos corporate entity... non-starter?
I want to give folks a status update on the illumos corporate entity. In a nutshell, the corporate entity seems to be failing to have traction. In particular, the various corporate contributors and downstreams for illumos have declined to step up to ensure that an illumos corporate entity has sufficient backing to make it successful. While at first blush, this seems somewhat unfortunate, I think this is not nearly quite as bad a thing as it might first seem. In particular, the failure of a corporate entity does not correlate to the health of the ecosystem -- indeed many successful open source projects operate without an umbrella organization or entity. Instead, we see corporate contributors and downstream distributions focusing on developing the communities behind their distributions such as SmartOS and OmniOS . Those downstreams play an active role in improving illumos for the benefit of all, and its my sincere hope and belief that they will ...