Some things to expect in 2025

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.

Yeah bashing big tech is an evergreen source of upvotes. Especially since it’s not always clear how something was funded. Take io_uring for example, an async I/O subsystem for Linux. Could you say offhand if this was funded by some big tech company or not? I’ll bet most people couldn’t.

Another example - everyone knows the xz attack. How many people can name offhand the company where Andres Freund worked? He was a full time employee of a tech company working on Postgres when he found this attack.

It’s always worth discussing how we can improve financial situation for maintainers in important open source projects. Hyperbole like your comment is useless at best and counterproductive at worst.