Conformal is a startup run by a group of former OpenBSD developers including Marco Peereboom (marco@), Owain Ainsworth (oga@), and others. I've met most of them in person, and I've interacted with them on mailing lists for nearly a decade and a half. They are all good people in my book, and they're very talented. On many occasions, both Marco and Owain have helped me debug problems while adding support for new hardware. I can think of one time when Marco asked for both root and serial access to one of my boxes so he could debug a HBA. I gave him root on the system, root on the serial concentrator box, and root access to the network enabled power strip for hard reboots. Yes, I trust him.