On August 3, 2010, Garrett D'Amore [https://www.illumos.org/projects/site/wiki/Announcement announced] announced the illumos project, "a community effort of some core Solaris engineers to create a truly open source Solaris by swapping closed source bits of OpenSolaris with open implementations." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumos wikipedia] wikipedia
In January, 2012, he reflected on [http://smartos.org/2012/02/02/experiences-starting-an-open-source-operating-system/ Experiences Experiences Starting an Open Source Operating System] (video) in a talk at SCALE 10x.
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