China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub
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Re: China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub
#2This is weird, considering Mongo changed their licensing because of Chinese cloud providers if I remember correctly. I don't know if people will merely blindly trust a GitHub rival ran by a foreign government as opposed to an organic startup, the only upside is for people in countries that are not allowed on GitHub.
Re: China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub
#3This is weird, considering Mongo changed their licensing because of Chinese cloud providers if I remember correctly. I don't know if people will merely blindly trust a GitHub rival ran by a foreign government as opposed to an organic startup, the only upside is for people in countries that are not allowed on GitHub.
And then you have to question why a foreign country would allow the new solution and not GitHub... it seems like it might be used by people used to a certain set of restrictions on them online, while others used to more liberal information flows would not.
Re: China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub
#4I can't help but wonder if such an attempt would even work.
Unless I am misunderstanding the culture that makes an open source ecosystem work, a free and open exchange of information and ideas is one of those fundamental things. When a thing is broken, sometimes you have to tell an authority the horribly embarrassing fact that the thing is broken. With the CCP controlling all information flows and what is or is not fact, then ISTM that pointing out that The Peoples' Authentication Protocol is fundamentally flawed and insecure could get one disappeared just as likely as it would get the protocol fixed.
Re: China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub
#5I've heard the phrase that "Competition is good for business" but never in the context "Competition is good for open source"
Re: China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub
#6In China all source is open.
Re: China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub
#7They want to block Github entirely because Github allows for the free flow of information (politically sensitive information, not just code) and they don't have a way of doing currently without just blocking all of Github... Which would be bad for business, and China also seems to be entering the software business in a bigger way.
Actually, if you want to send large amounts of text information to users in China right now, Github is probably one of the better ways. Unfortunately probably not for long!
Re: China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub
#8I've heard the phrase that "Competition is good for business" but never in the context "Competition is good for open source"
The second phrase is far more accurate than the first!
Re: China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub
#9This is weird, considering Mongo changed their licensing because of Chinese cloud providers if I remember correctly. I don't know if people will merely blindly trust a GitHub rival ran by a foreign government as opposed to an organic startup, the only upside is for people in countries that are not allowed on GitHub.
The problem is that this organic startup is now a enterprise behemoth that can be trusted as much as CCP: Microsoft.
Re: China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub
#10Git and other resources are subject to US sanctions just like anyone else. They are the logical next step since the started making a fuss over mobile phone makers, networks providers, chip makers etc.