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195 points tosh | 1 comments | 21 Nov 24 18:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.498s | source
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farawayea ◴[21 Nov 24 20:51 UTC] No.42208533[source]▶
Their tech may be more than adequate today. Bigger businesses may not buy from a small startup company. They expect a lot more. Illumos is a less popular OS. It wouldn't be the first choice for the OS I'd rely on. Who writes the security mitigations for speculative execution bugs? Who patches CVEs in the shipped software which doesn't use Rust?
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1. steveklabnik ◴[21 Nov 24 23:51 UTC] No.42209882[source]▶
> Bigger businesses may not buy from a small startup company.

Our early customers include government, finance, and places like Shopify.

You’re not wrong that some places may prefer older companies but that doesn’t mean they all do.

Illumos is not really directly relevant to the customer, it’s a non user facing implementation detail.

We provide security updates.