The 'IT Industry' is Already in Ruins
LAST year I told the story of about 12 years in Sirius (I had actually begun writing about it in December 2022; months later I became aware of crimes). I spoke to a former colleague yesterday; he was shocked to learn about these crimes.
That period of well over a decade helped shape my critical opinion on clown computing. I've already told the story about the company that did the "clown" till it didn't... and within a month's notice we had to move all the machines to different hosting. See, it was no longer in their financial interest to be in this "clown computing" thing, so customers had to suffer and hurry to move out. The National Health Service was impacted.
I am rather cynical about the fate of gitforges, aside from NotABug.org, as I've seen it all before in my professional life. We prefer to host our own thing because we've learned from agonising experiences not only of our own but also past clients or employers.
At the moment one crisis in the so-called 'IT Industry' is very well articulated in articles by Andy. He explains that people aren't equipped with the knowledge, skills and experience needed to build systems. At the same time GAFAM is draining away the knowledge-base, basically by attacking or hiring many or most who still know how to do this. It results in outsourcing and Windows, which in turn kill people. Yes, National Health Service again!
How do we respond to this crisis? Education, probably. The problem is, universities nearly quit teaching relevant skills and they themselves got outsourced and now teach students some "clown" skills (i.e. how to outsource almost everything).
There is no quick solution to this crisis. The "powers that be" do not want the "hoi polloi" to possess skills and systems. They want them to merely rent from those who do. █