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microtonal 6 hours ago

Really excited to a company investing into immutable and cryptographically verifiable systems. Two questions really:

1. How will the company make money? (You have probably been asked that a million times :).)

2. Similar to the sibling: what are the first bits that you are going to work on.

At any rate, super cool and very nice that you are based in EU/Germany/Berlin!

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blixtra 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

1. We are confident we have a very robust path to revenue.

2. Given the team, it should be quite obvious there will be a Linux-based OS involved.

Our aims are global but we certainly look forward to playing an important role in the European tech landscape.

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2b3a51 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"We are confident we have a very robust path to revenue."

I take it that you are not at this stage able to provide details of the nature of the path to revenue. On what kind of timescale do you envisage being able to disclose your revenue stream/subscribers/investors?

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michaelt 4 hours ago | parent [-]

"Ubuntu Core" is a similar product [1]

As I understand it, the main customers for this sort of thing are companies making Tivo-style products - where they want to use Linux in their product, but they want to lock it down so it can't be modified by the device owner.

This can be pretty profitable; once your customers have rolled out a fleet of hardware locked down to only run kernels you've signed.

[1] https://ubuntu.com/core

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noitpmeder 4 hours ago | parent [-]

This sounds like a net negative for the end user

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MomsAVoxell 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not if the end user is an operator of safety critical equipment, such as rail or pro audio or any of a number of industries where stability and reproducibility is essential to the product.

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direwolf20 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's because it is a net negative to the end user and to society at large.

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warkdarrior 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If the end users do not want the net negative, maybe they should pay for the security features instead of expecting everything for free.

	▲	direwolf20 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I don't understand. The user will not have a choice.

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5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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dang 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784719.