Imagine if the governments were to fund open source projects when they need and as such the benefit is available to everyone if they have no money.

In such scenario all governments/citizens would have access to software that is good.

It's always impressive to me that instead of sending billions of dollars to Microsoft, the US government could have had an entire operating system that caters exactly to them. They could have then given back in the form of commits improving the software for the rest of us too.

It was a huge fluke of luck that the XZ backdoor didn’t go in any actual Linux distribution releases.

It did get into a few, just not the ones corporations are likely to be using.

I got into a rabbit hole and read the story of the SolarWinds attack. Even as a total layman, what a rollercoaster.