The trend in geopolitics is one of increased conflict, war, economic warfare, and cyberespionage. Particularly with China-Russia-India-US becoming a sort of fou

The trend in geopolitics is one of increased conflict, war, economic warfare, and cyberespionage. Particularly with China-Russia-India-US becoming a sort of four way geopolitical competition, US increased isolationism, demographic disruption, and who knows what with climate change stresses. I fear that open source repositories and similar infrastructure fundamentally based on idealistic cooperation will be so comprehensively targeted by these competing entities that they won't be able to function. That their existence relies on a degree of international cooperation that is now effectively a bygone era. Without multi-governmental funding for diligent curation of these repositories, things might be looking dark. The funding should be there. These repositories power the fundamental software not only of defense departments (sorry, it's WAR Department now ...), but of economic vitality. I'm bringing this up here mostly because I thought of it while reading this. Nix isn't particularly vulnerable to this, actually since it uses some degree of immutable sets for reliable reproduction of builds/configuration, its approach is probably fundamental to addressing what I detailed above.