[mycoliza]

We write the security mitigations. We patch the CVEs. Oxide employs many, perhaps most, of the currently active illumos maintainers --- although I don't work on the illumos kernel personally, I talk to those folks every day.

A big part of what we're offering our customers is the promise that there's one vendor who's responsible for everything in the rack. We want to be the responsible party for all the software we ship, whether it's firmware, the host operating system, the hypervisor, and everything else. Arguably, the promise that there's one vendor you can yell at for everything is a more important differentiator for us than any particular technical aspect of our hardware or software.