[OpenIndiana-discuss] [off-topic] Samsung acquires Joyant

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It maybe to early to tell but does this mean SmartOS will continue as an 
opensource distro ?


On 11/07/2016 04:20, Nikola M wrote:
> On 07/10/16 08:53 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
>> I'm also subscribed to the Joyant SmartOS list, although I don't keep
>> up with it as well as I do the OpenIndiana one.
>>
>> Catching up on post, I find that Samsung is acquiring Joyant, makers
>> of the SmartOS distro, among many other neat things.
>>
>> https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent
>>
>> This apparently happened, or minimally, kicked off mid-June 2016.
>>
>> Fingers crossed that Joyant, their products, and their employees come
>> out of this unscathed.
> When I heard of it and read it on Joyent site, I was somehow happy,
> because Samsung is producing it's of silicon and having factories and
> large user base and the clear public image.
> As I remember Samsung makes it's phones with an ability to record
> phonecalls, because they implement function in silicon they produce,
> where many(most) other vendors doesn't implement it in fear of coming
> under local regulations and hardware is reused in many other models. So
> it's important to make your own silicon. That can also open the question
> of ARM port, where Samsung produces it.
>
> They got exceptionally fine server and cloud crew for them and not to
> forget big community for open cloud (SDC), distro and illumos in
> general, including Openindiana (extending partially to Solaris).
> If they keep the business and have it growing and open and reuse it,
> there's clear road ahead for Samsung, too.
>
>
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