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Very unclear what the business case for this actually is. I watched all the talk, and it seems to be centered around the fact that opaque, vendor-specific blob

Very unclear what the business case for this actually is. I watched all the talk, and it seems to be centered around the fact that opaque, vendor-specific blobs that run on hidden cores are a security weakness. I agree with that, but to be fair, what segment of the market actually cares enough about this to pay oxide money? There may be a business case in there, but the talk certainly doesn't explain what that is.

panick21_ 4y ago
Why would you expect the talk at a firmware conference to explain their business plan? Also he mentions more then security.
steveklabnik 4y ago
From my own perspective, the business case is reliability. We can take responsibility for the entire rack. No “actually that bug is in code from our vendor, we’ll file a ticket upstream” and then maybe someday it’ll get fixed and maybe someday eventually roll out. If (let’s be real, when: nothing is perfect…) problems in our system are found, we can fix them. There’s other reasons too. But imho that’s the big one.