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• Does the Fate of OpenSolaris Tell Us Where Unix Is Headed?
  I coined a new (tongue-in-cheek) law yesterday – “For every epic fail there is an equal and opposite epic win” – and this could well be an instance of it. A clever and keen bunch of people are being liberated from the expectation someone else is going to do the job and motivated to establish a fully open, fully Free Unix kernel in the Illumos project. I’m now on the look-out for the counterbalancing “win” for some other “fail”…
  So, I don’t think so. But it does liberate Illumos.

Also:

• Welcome Apple, seriously
  It appears that Apple are happy to play open but Facebook aren’t quite so keen to join in. That’s the deal with “open” – it cuts both ways.
• Henry Story and WebID
  Another member of the Sun diaspora, with a very worthwhile idea.

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