And is likely probably already being used on the attack side?

Wouldn't put it past people that this is already happening with vendor security products and some basic compliance checkboxing.

Not because of steeling or use IMHO. It will be mostly because of the sheer amount of low quality open source or freeware products out there with no maintenance and people's increasing ability to generate bespoke fit for "purpose" code. I think large projects have the potential to benefit with the right gate keeping and processes.

I'm going to blame all the science fiction it consumes.

The changes to the law / interpretation is part of the mechanisms of how the pendulum swings as the swinging is a human thing, so it happens on longer time scales. But it can definitely feel like it's over. (But each swing is different.)

Don't do this because of this, you will be a pawn being told to do something with a potentially massive cost to yourself and very little gain / loss on either side, not to mention other than the owning corporation what does source control have to do with operating systems. It doesn't send the right message of a boycott. It would hardly register on Microsoft charts.

Look a new endpoint to guard with your life.

It's borderline if it's too good to be true... I wonder about the long term stability of signal. I guess if it does disappear it does leave the protocol. However I would have wished for some means of integration between the signal compatible providers. (Perhaps it exists and I'm not aware?)

If amazon can pull of people paying for this, this opens the doors to many more companies with different philosophies producing devices, perhaps even reverse engineering the existing devices including open source. If not, e-waste.

To be fair.. A game written in a garage or not is still a cog of sorts of a larger system. :P

And proved it at the same time! :P

But.... Does it have enough traction?

Redhat -> Mandrake -> Knoppix -> Gentoo -> (Solaris) -> Ubuntu

Think of the items they sell as independent products that extend the game, and it works fine.

In places that I have worked so far. They have not.