> While the software is an essential part of the Oxide cloud computer, what we sell is in fact the computer. As a champion of open source, this allows Oxide a particularly straightforward open source strategy: our software is all open.
But their homepage says this:
> As soon as power is applied to an Oxide rack, our purpose-built hardware root of trust – present on every Oxide server and switch – cryptographically validates that its own firmware is genuine and unmodified.
That sounds like tivoization to me. The value of their software being open source is heavily diminished by their hardware refusing to run anything but their "genuine and unmodified" software.
Not sure about the tivoization. You could never send a pull request to the Tivo repo on Github, because it does not exist.
And maybe the Oxide hardware allows you to change the certificates so you can roll your own?
From my own understanding its neither (unless by "remote" you don't mean Oxide). From my understanding there's no involvement of Oxide in running the computer. You should never need to talk to them to configure anything nor should you ever need to talk to them if you want to flash the firmware with something else entirely.
> While the software is an essential part of the Oxide cloud computer, what we sell is in fact the computer. As a champion of open source, this allows Oxide a particularly straightforward open source strategy: our software is all open.
But their homepage says this:
> As soon as power is applied to an Oxide rack, our purpose-built hardware root of trust – present on every Oxide server and switch – cryptographically validates that its own firmware is genuine and unmodified.
That sounds like tivoization to me. The value of their software being open source is heavily diminished by their hardware refusing to run anything but their "genuine and unmodified" software.