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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by hnedeotes on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:16AM (#50365852)
That's also weird, in this reality, isn't it? You've got russians, chinese, etc, supposedly antagonistic to the western cultural hegemony, but then they just rely on western technology tool-chains. If I was guiding any of these countries a close to number 1 priority, technologically speaking, would be to create a completely independent software tool-chain. And talk through adaptors.
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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by pnt12 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:25PM (#50369555)
I think China uses NeoKylin, and Russia Astra Linux, both based on Linux.

I don't see China antagonistic to the west - they want autonomy, and don't share many of the values, but they're open to a wealthy West spending lots of money in Chinese goods.

Russia, at least its government, is a bit more, especially recently. But anyway, why reinvent the wheel when a battle tested FOSS is there for the taking?

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