A few months back I randomly ran across Cantrill, Frazelle, and Tuck while they were at a FedEx Center printing and signing some docs for Oxide. As a recent convert to Cantrill YouTube fandom, I recognized him and said hello. They were all tremendously welcoming and friendly, and Cantrill took a great deal of time to shoot the breeze with me about Rust, the plans for their new business, and the pain points of working with Xoogler architects (not in reference to Frazelle, I should note).

I've been watching off and on for their launch announcement ever since. Some of the reservations about their business plan expressed in this thread ring true with me, and yet I hope they will succeed in spite of it all. The last thing the world needs is an internet which runs entirely on computers owned by Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.