Now that is the most interesting question anyone here asked.

It looks likely it could take all the big software companies with it, and all the big cloud providers. It may well kill most GPU vendors, most datacentre and hosting companies. Industrial-scale LLMs are propping up the entire cloud business, and that itself was bloated and overgrown. SaaS was a mistake. Anything -aaS was a mistake.

I'd _like_ to see this kill off MS, Oracle etc.

Intel is teetering. NVidia is probably screwed. AMD may follow.

There's geopolitics here too. China wants Taiwan and has actively been divesting from Western hardware and software. So has Russia. Lots of Linux growth there: it's free, it works, they can just take it.

And there's rapid climate change too, which is starting to become visible.

Everyone who manufuctures in Taiwan may well be doomed. But ditto everyone in the tropics, in the newer tech centres: Malaysia, Thailand, etc.

Everyone who gets chips from Taiwan is probably screwed. Everyone who assembles in PacRim and SE Asia too.

That will take down most Western companies.

Apple might weather it: it sells hardware, and it has its own unique OS family. But others make its hardware for it -- in those areas.

Chinese tech may bloom.

Small scale individual FOSS will be OK.

Stuff reusing legacy tech, that can run on old kit.

Everyone's deprecating x86-32. That may bite them hard.

Everything dependent on virtual stuff and public cloud, everything dependent on K8s and remote datacentres, everything you can't run locally on kit you own that sits in premises you own.

That includes a lot of the games industry.

Non-commercial OSes will be OK.

Bad times for RHEL and the clones. Bad times for SUSE and maybe Canonical.

Maybe OK for Debian. Good for Arch & Alpine & Slackware.

Stuff that needs GPUs, bad. Stuff that works fine in standard def on CPU graphics, good.

But I am just indulging my own biases and skepticism here, I freely admit.

I don't think for example MS will be doomed so fast. Even when they loose all their investments and a lot of money. They still have their software, and contracts with nearly every company.