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258 points signa11 | 3 comments | 16 Jan 25 22:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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AtlasBarfed ◴[17 Jan 25 01:41 UTC] No.42733143[source]▶
Linux will politically continue to fail to extract needed monetary support from first world countries and mega corps principally dependant on it.

In particular, my libraries and national security concerns.

The US government has its underwear in a bunch over various Chinese sources hardware, but continues to let a bunch of hobbyists maintain the software.

I almost think it is time to hold these massive orgs accountable by merging targeted vulnerabilities and performance bombs unless they start paying up. Microsoft and other monopolized software companies have no issue using whatever tactics are necessary to shale the revenue from software dependent/ addicted orgs.

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1. not2b ◴[17 Jan 25 02:46 UTC] No.42733564[source]▶
Most Linux kernel contributors are professionals who are paid for their work. They aren't hobbyists.

However, there are quite a few critically important tools and libraries that are essentially maintained by a volunteer as a hobby, and yes, that's a risk.

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2. SoftTalker ◴[17 Jan 25 03:33 UTC] No.42733811[source]▶
Hence the observation that "single-maintainer projects (or subsystems, or packages) will be seen as risky".
3. AtlasBarfed ◴[17 Jan 25 14:40 UTC] No.42737960[source]▶
There are trillions of dollars of budgeted organizations dependent on Linux.

I'm talking about serious hundreds of millions funded foundations on par with windows at least to some scale.

The US government should get forking over tens of millions. Hell, it should be part of the AWS contract with the government that they fund Linux foundation that tune.

Everyone crying over some reputation smear on Linux programmers are missing the goddamn point, especially on the desktop front.

If the US wants to continue to have wide open vulnerable consumer networks, then I guess windows will make us fundamentally vulnerable. The US military needs a consumer tier secure Linux desktop. And if rather it wasn't android corporate spyware because otherwise that is what we are getting.

I guess I just answered my question. Android for everyone.