>>12328It kinda depends on what is motivating this. If they really just want better IT security and it's not their goal to suffocate FOSS, they'll likely go back and fix the broken aspects of this, and it'll be temporary damage.
But if this is a monopoly move to kill off smaller competitors we have to start teaching FOSS companies how to bully back. I kinda thought that proprietary and FOSS software could co-exist now, it looked like the proprietarians had given up their war against FOSS, if that turns out to be false, it's better to just preserve FOSS and get rid of the predators that threaten it.
>I don't think that development could realistically go underground at this current scale either.Yeah it's kinda hard to have a secret organization that wants to be fully transparent to the wider public.
>This definitely is a blow to the organizational capabilities of FOSSI guess FOSS would turn into a programmers guild, where only guild members get source access and maintain the FOSS principles internally but not externally. At least that way organization would be maintained.
>There will likely be a mixed bag of compliant larger devs and noncompliant smaller ones but it will be fuckey for sure if it happens.One thing to consider is that China has been super effective at poaching talent from Taiwan ever since the US began it's crackdown on microchips. There's even a Chinese graphics card company that was formed by a bunch of former NVIDIA employees that got screwed over in the chip-purge. The Chinese basically created a special economic zone that pretty much allowed these people to import the Taiwanese legal framework with long term legal guarantees.
If this is indeed the inquisition preparing to purge FOSS, it might be possible to survive in a Chinese special economic zone until shit goes back to normal. It would be kinda ironic if the Very American concept of freedom that are underpinning FOSS ideals end up getting preserved by the "muhauthoritarians".