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Conformal is a startup run by a group of former OpenBSD developers including Marco Peereboom (marco@), Owain Ainsworth (oga@), and others. I've met most of them
by jcr 14y ago
Conformal is a startup run by a group of former OpenBSD developers
including Marco Peereboom (marco@), Owain Ainsworth (oga@), and others.
I've met most of them in person, and I've interacted with them on
mailing lists for nearly a decade and a half. They are all good people
in my book, and they're very talented. On many occasions, both Marco
and Owain have helped me debug problems while adding support for new
hardware. I can think of one time when Marco asked for both root and
serial access to one of my boxes so he could debug a HBA. I gave him
root on the system, root on the serial concentrator box, and root access
to the network enabled power strip for hard reboots. Yes, I trust him.
- Surio 14y agoVery nice answer. Qualified, thoughtful with no loose ends.
- jcr 14y agoHeck, he knows I can't outrun him, and he knows where I live, so it had better be a nice answer. ;-)
- Surio 14y agoHa! If only it were only that ;-). (I know you are being faceticious). No, really it was a genuinely thoughtful and respectful description of the person. I only hope that at my own level, and at some point in life, people I am associated with think of me in (somewhat) similar terms ;-)
- conformal 14y agohi there jcr, this is jy-p, thanks for the kind words :)
- jcr 14y agoYou're welcome jy-p. I just realized that I left out something important that nearly everyone on HN could relate with and appreciate. Conformal is comprised of some of the same people who helped to give the world OpenSSH which absolutely everybody uses. Of course they don't get all the credit, but they helped, and it probably wouldn't take too long to search the commit logs and find some of your names committing/OK'ing patches. Knowingly or not, anyone running OpenSSH is already trusting the work of the people at Conformal.
- D9u 14y agoThere's also their Xombrero browser, of which I am quite a fan. Many thanks to Conformal from a FreeBSD aficionado.