[Aissen]

Aren't you afraid this might get your relationship with this supplier tougher ? Not necessarily with engineers, but if some C-level decides that you're giving them bad publicity and blacklist you or making you pay public price for all products ?

[bcantrill]

No, we're not afraid. Even with the partners that have been a real challenge for us, there is recognition that (1) we know what we're doing and (2) we want them to succeed. It should be said that that's not by accident: we have taken a deliberate, values-based approach to partner selection (and we differentiate between partners and vendors). Specifically, we explicitly look for partners that share our value of responsibility. Indeed, we have written an RFD[0] on the shared values that we seek in a partnership that we send very early on in the relationship; if a C-level doesn't buy into shared responsibility with the fate of their customers, we will find someone who does.

[0] https://oxide.computer/blog/rfd-1-requests-for-discussion