Which part of a project that kicked out its original maintainers still feels "original" to you? At this point, rubygems.org is the fork.

Oh, how times have changed. If Oracle were to close source OpenSolaris today, many here would likely rally behind it, especially if Larry Ellison appeared to align with the right. Submissions about Illumos would have been heavily flagged, much like this one has been for a while.