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in Sun's defense, that was in the 1990s, before the invention of the telephone.

does this mean that you won't be killing anyone?

Elsewhere! We’re completing compliance testing to deliver to Europe.

The market is anyone who wants a private cloud but isn’t as big as an Amazon or Google who could build it themselves. Seems like a big enough TAM.

$400m of Simpsons references is undeniably a good use of VC.

We've shipped kind of a lot of hardware at this point!

Hit me up @oxidecomputer.com

So while most of the software is open source rather than proprietary, you still have a fair point that customers pay for support (as they do with most enterprise products). One could theoretically use the product without first-party software updates, managing the open source oneself... but that would have practical impediments (and runs counter to the all-in-one simplicity that customers value in the Oxide product).

Two points about your last point. First, software improvements benefit all customers; as the business grows, the effective cost per customer shrinks. Also, most customers grow their Oxide deployment or will replace hardware after a depreciation cycle. The sustainability of investments into the software (and the product generally) is on solid ground.

Oxide uses illumos under the covers That's in no small part due to the composition of the early team--but we have benefitted tremendously from features (ZFS, SMF, FMA, Zones, bhyve, etc.) and observability infrastructure (DTrace, mdb, libproc, etc.) folks on the team have worked on for decades.

This implies that the goal of compensation transparency is to satisfy people's curiosity. I don't think that's the case. Regardless of how it's denominated, I think the goal of compensation transparency is ... uh... equity... no pun intended.

But the real hero was the person who walked 100 yards to home depot and back with the push broom!

What makes you say that? We talk about salary compensation, yes, but there's also equity compensation.

I can't speak for everyone at Oxide, but I'm practically certain that none of us wants to live in Sunnyvale.