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Before he got his Netflix special, he worked for Sun then Joyent in Solaris/BSD/SmartOS in stuff like ZFS and DTrace.

The Linux stuff was a money-grab, some say he sold out.. :)

I've been clear on HN multiple times that I saw no future in the Solaris/SmartOS ecosystem by 2014, which is one (but not the only) reason I left it. I was right too: https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/solaris.do

Ignore the troll and thank you for all your content Brendan!

Relax it was a joke. You can state your appreciation without disparaging others who didn't follow your direct means of communication.

I thought it was pretty clearly a joke. Maybe a ";)" emoji would have been more explicit.

Ah, it _was_ a joke. I really wasn't sure.

>The Linux stuff was a money-grab

That seems like an odd conclusion to me. If you've got deep expertise in the spaces he does, and the server market moves mostly to Linux, getting involved there seems unavoidable. Lingering on the dying SmartOS ecosystem, even if it was technically better, wouldn't have served anyone well.

Edit: Ah, as mentioned below, perhaps a joke? I'd attributed the smiley face only to the latter part of the sentence.

I think it was a joke.

The odd conclusion to me is how the last line I've post was interpreted as a serious statement.

Didn't the "Before he got his Netflix special.." or the fact Linux is pretty much the only game in town with no sign of even being seriously challenged served as a hint?

Context is hard with just text. Smarter people than me were confused :)

I thought the :) was obvious. So I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Although at one point I thought Brendon not only abandoned solaris but also BSD.

You're joking of course, but it was me who wrote that, and I stand by what I wrote.

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