This is great news. In the same way that openly shared and critiqued communication protocol specs are a boon for incredibly performant, efficient and secure se

This is great news. In the same way that openly shared and critiqued communication protocol specs are a boon for incredibly performant, efficient and secure services, so too can cracking the black box on data center hardware be for building even more powerful server farms and the like. It's cool to see Microsoft join with Facebook in being a disruption to a closely kept branch of system design. The designs are open source -- any of these threatened companies can take, learn from, and extend them. If opening up designs like this is a threat to wages or jobs (I think the argument might be "why pay a system designer if I can grab these specs") it's the same threat presented by any technology advance. Innovate or die, as they say. Though, it would be nice that if a company is going to pay a team to design a custom box, then open source that design, the least they could do is prominently credit the team of engineers.