Illumos sporks OpenSolaris
Found on The Register on Monday, 02 August 2010
D'Amore gets his paychecks from Nexenta, so he wants OpenSolaris to continue to evolve as well. But the project is dead in the water and the community needs a new place to hang out and tweak code for inclusion in a code base.
D'Amore has invited Oracle to participate in Illumos, but like the OpenSolaris community, has not heard anything from the software giant.
The biggest problem is that an important minority of the code distributed with OpenSolaris is closed source, something that has annoyed the OpenSolaris community for five years. Sun didn't allocate resources to fix this and neither has Oracle.
Oracle won't do anything except letting OpenSolaris die. Thanks to the closed source parts, the community is pretty much depending on Oracle, unless someone rewrites all those parts from scratch. The only sad thing is that ZFS will die that way too.