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We may be moving towards a situation in which the West and the China/Russia block end up being completely disjoint as far as proprietary software goes (whether

We may be moving towards a situation in which the West and the China/Russia block end up being completely disjoint as far as proprietary software goes (whether cloud or on-premise), due to each banning the proprietary software of the other, although still sharing open source in common. The long-term consequences could be interesting.

OutOfHere 2y ago
It's an opportunity to move to open source software. As an example, if uBlock Origin can be open and work for the world, why can't something else?
nradov 2y ago
That's a good insight. The likely consequence will be that security services on both sides increasingly target open source projects as a zone of conflict, both by trying to inject security vulnerabilities that they can exploit when used by the other side and by trying to detect vulnerabilities prior to use on their side. The maintainers and code committers on major open source projects will be targeted for recruitment as intelligence assets.