> A world where Bryan Cantrill is the lone SmartOS holdout, after his compatriots have declared it a lost cause, is just nerve-wracking.
I don't see where you are getting this idea. There are many contributors to Illumos from all over the globe. https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/graphs/contributors . Bryan stated in a previous post that Joyent now employs more former Sun engineers than it ever has.
> If it was simply a personal dispute and had nothing to do with technical direction
From the outside looking in when Brendan left, reading both the mailing lists and Twitter, this is exactly what it seemed like.
I don't see where you are getting this idea. There are many contributors to Illumos from all over the globe. https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/graphs/contributors . Bryan stated in a previous post that Joyent now employs more former Sun engineers than it ever has.
> If it was simply a personal dispute and had nothing to do with technical direction
From the outside looking in when Brendan left, reading both the mailing lists and Twitter, this is exactly what it seemed like.