• veee@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    The goal is to overhaul and replace everything by 2027. It’s crazy to think how much technological progress will be gained and lost in that short span of time.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      6 months ago

      I expect that much more will be gained than lost in the process. China has been doing huge investments into open source because that makes more sense than starting from scratch. So, what we’re going to see is a lot of proprietary software being replaced with open alternatives.

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        6 months ago

        China’s use of opensource isn’t exactly in the spirit of open-source though, is it?

        As an example, most companies in China don’t even release the linux kernel source code after they modify it, as they are required by GPL.

        So they’re building mega-corps on the back of opensource, just like the western counterparts. That’s capitalism 101.

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          6 months ago

          Chinese companies release plenty of open source in practice. Meanwhile, cooperatively owned companies like Huawei are nothing like western capitalism.

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          most companies in China don’t even release the linux kernel source code after they modify it,

          It’s that true? Never heard of this.

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          Yes it is not in alignment with the spirit of open source. In the “industrial districts” there is no validity for copyrights. Means if one company developed something, any other can adapt it without any restriction, even without a license. This is very counter intuitive to our capitalistic rules. But this policy essentially forces you to make progress as quick as possible, else someone else will adapt it and make a product out of it. Then you lose all the market.

          China is forcing companies to make money out of capitalistic economies, but restricts the “knowledge” or “technology” accumulation into a few mega corporations.

          At least this is the theory. But as everywhere else corruption and hunger for power screws up things in China also.