Like, uh, thinking out loud here, but ... Assume you're an employed OSS developer. Your employer, your communities use what everyone does.
What happens to your source of income if you get hit by the US government (say, for referencing the regime with the appropriate adjectives, or even just too vocal about EU independence in the tech sector) and Microsoft/GitHub, Slack, Discord, Google/G Suite/Meet become impossible for you to use?
(Not so abstract now, is it.)
@larsmb As probably nearly all OSS is currently running on distributed VCS you will move your work over to self-hosted or one of the fabled European hosting providers.
Your downstream will, in many cases, at some point notice the move and either replace you for being a political or security risk or move to your new distribution point. The laggards won't notice the change just like they did before until they get hacked for using ancient, vulnerable versions of whatever, just lime they did before.
You yourself might switch employers due to the original one now going bankrupt due to sanctions if they were impacted
A variation of that might apply to yourself. You might weather that storm by having established risk-appropriate contingency plans and service choices before. Or you'll have them afterwards.
#foss #supplychain #selfhosting #forgejo #codeberg #contingencyplans
@jti42 That's mostly the community perspective. I wasn't talking about the employer itself.
But an employee who is no longer able to use G Suite or GitHub accounts (the primary platforms all major corporate vendors/suppliers utilize even in the OSS space) would come close to being effectively unemployable.
Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷
JTI