milon

That's easy: The town square bump situation involves having the right to offer what you like and choosing freely, and my relationship to, say, Dell, or Lenovo, or Framework, or Apple, is that I can have money, they can build hardware, I can spend money on their hardware, and I might even be able to buy hardware+software that I like with the money I have.

What I don't have is a factory/expertise/resources to build the hardware myself if Dell, Lenovo, or Apple decide to start offering things that you or I do not want. I was very careful to say as such: If you're selling the software, the ideal situation for you would be that the buyers have no other choice other than you. That's the "free pony ride" you think customers are wanting, but these companies are actually getting.

The world doesn't run on analogies and situations don't become equal because they look similar. Evidently you could argue about incentives to build software going away, or anything else, but I would like to reiterate that the ideal situation for me, as a customer, would be for me to have a _choice_ in whether I buy the software or not. Not having the choice, i.e., by being told to "just not buy hardware" is not the ideal situation for me as a customer.

And just as you are arguing for the ideal situation for the companies, I'm arguing for the ideal situation for the customer.

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It sounds reasonable to have the opportunity to buy hardware without software you do not intend to use. Though, I do assume that from the POV of the company selling the software, it would be ideal for the customer to not have a choice. I guess companies also want free ice creams and pony rides.

Having a solid on-prem rack product to me is a great thing. I like IaaS services a lot, don't get me wrong, and I think they're the right pick for a bunch of cases, but on-prem servers also have their "place in the sun", so to speak :) I could present any number of justifications that I don't think I'm qualified enough to defend, but the gist is that at the bare minimum, I'm glad the option exists.

As to why I'm personally excited: I enjoy the amount of control having such an on-prem rack would afford me, and there surely could be a great amount of cost-savings and energy-savings in many scenarios. Sometimes, you just need a rack to deploy services for your local business. I like the prospect of decentralizing infrastructure, applying all the things we've learned with IaaSes.

I'm glad this is out, i'm going to deploy this locally and learn as much about it as possible. Oxide is pretty much the company I dream to work at, both for the tech stack, plus the people working there. Thank you Oxide team!