China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub

Re:China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival Gi... by africanboy on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @04:10PM (#25838935)

Baidu and Alibaba have open source projects (RocketMQ has been donated to Apache by Alibaba http://rocketmq.apache.org)

Chinese developers are the second largest group of contributors on GitHub

there's also a billion and a half of them, most of them don't speak english (edit: not all of the Chinese people are developers of course)

Anyway, GitHub itself it's not OSS and it's owned by Microsoft

AFAIK open source contributions are not usually rewarded in China by employers, but that's true in general in Europe as well

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Re:China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival Gi... by hehehaha on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @04:14PM (#25838974)

Thanks for that info. I knew about Baidu and Alibaba repos but I was more curious how open source was culturally perceived.

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Re:China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival Gi... by africanboy on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @04:45PM (#25839321)

I only know from friends living there, take anything I say as speculations, but what I gather is that they see open source as a technical advantage over starting from scratch, it's not a spontaneous movement.

it makes sense from the point of view of a country that has gained a leading position worldwide from accurately reproducing something that already existed.

judging from the number of Linux distro they are releasing I think they are pretty serious about it.

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