Modern computing does not make me feel good. Really hate this signing business controlled by the OS vendors. I get the added security benefits, but I'm not sure the tradeoff is worth it.
Well corporations decide on that. I abandoned rubygems.org when they added
the 100.000 download limit; past that point I was no longer able to remove
old gem. Then came the new corporate laws for rubygems.org and mass-firing
of about 8 open source developers who were involved with the ruby ecosystem.
We simply need to accept that corporations controlling an ecosystem can lead
to HUGE problems. We need an alternative here. I don't have a good alternative
either to suggest - money is influential. People adjust their behaviour and how
they think with regards to money all the time. We could need some kind of model
that also handles the economy. And, again - I have absolutely no clue how that
could or should look like.
We need to create a special interest org for people that support general computing. I'm open to be part of something like this.[0]. Reach out to me if interested
At this rate, I'd say we have less than a year before world governments simultaneously start rolling out laws making Linux illegal. Of course they won't call it "The Ban Linux Bill" but it will be back-channeled through some bullshit security or user verification requirement.
It's too late to close that Pandora's box. Linux is far too ubiquitous now. Even if it still lags behind Windows in the desktop computing space, it is already a non-trivial market share and growing quickly. And in many other computing spaces, Linux is king.
They can't realistically make Linux illegal. But they can put onerous requirements on popular Linux distributions - such as the age "verification" features they're currently trying to require[0]. Hopefully that proves to be ineffective.
