China is playing a long game, which could pay off on an enormous scale
Some of the common arguments for moving away from proprietary operating systems are about increasing personal freedom and decreasing expenditure, but there are bigger things at stake.What's received less attention is that, due to geopolitical maneuvering, two of the world's largest countries were largely spared. As the BBC put it,FOSS desk was based where Eastern and Western Europe meet.
There is a bigger picture here. FOSS frequently isn't as polished as proprietary software. The thing is, that sometimes doesn't matter. So long as an alternative does the essential parts of the job at all, that may be enough. If it's free – or at least, much cheaper – that is enough to clinch the deal.
The real error here is so much of the IT industry blindly trusting large corporate vendors not to mess up. The webcomic XKCD has beenEvery business and organization is free not to take the mainstream route, but most simply follow the herd. That's what is leading to The government of China has been doing something different, and as a result it need not care about the rest of the world's computer industry. It has its own OSes, running on its own silicon. It and its big Eurasian ally might be inconvenienced – butcrippled – by the collapse of the worldwide chip industry… just as it was, apparently, not massively affected in any significant way by CrowdStrike causing many of the world's Windows computer systems to collapse.
If Russia gets away with destroying Ukraine – allegedly in order to save it, of course – then China might prove willing to destroy Taiwan in much the same way. As a side effect, it could do a more effective job of destroying the world computer industry than even CrowdStrike managed. The world might suddenly be grateful for resource-frugal FOSS if it does.
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