• tehn00bi@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It’s going to fall apart and the industries using the tools are going to adopt a Unix philosophy of dedicated tools that do a specific job well. May take a Butlerian Jihad, but it will happen.

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      It’s already happening, in part because of this and in part because of the unstable, unpredictable US government.

      Several European countries are looking towards investing in open source as a way to get away from American big tech because they’re suddenly considering US sanctions against them a real possibility, or at least a real threat.

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        Ayup. Why build your company on a service with a US company when they can - and have - fuck you on a whim?

        With standalone installs you can keep trucking. Service as subscription? That’s going to very quickly start dying off as the world destabilises.