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TokyoKid | 6 years ago

This looks great except for something I spied at the end: "Efficient mode" and "Fashion mode", where one looks like Windows and the other looks like macOS. There is obviously a great attention to detail in the trailer. But there might be a great misunderstanding of macOS that they call it "Fashion Mode". Furthermore, I think pursuing two window manager designs/desktops is a poor use of resources. It shows a reluctance to choose a target market as well. I wish them luck and hope they'll make some hard decisions and maintain the support of large tech companies. The ecosystem developing around RISC-V and Linux is exciting.

Invention is the child of necessity, and the global unease is creating necessity for software and hardware not reliant on US/UK technology licensing.

Open source folks should be excited about this side-effect of the unfortunate global tensions and posturing. There shouldn't be anti-Chinese comments here, but positive ones. It can't be that after years of Linux and open source evangelism, folks are dismissing or gate-keeping the movement based on race, language or anything.

Stallman is giving talks at Microsoft, who historically attack open source and bought the world's biggest open source resource (Github). We're told to play nice with them now and they're an ally. And yet there's knee-jerk dismissal of an open source OS because a Chinese company used it on their devices.

Gatekeeping Chinese out of open source is not only the worst possible thing to do for open source, but probably the worst thing for your career. Folks ought to be keeping up with these trends as China grows and spreads it's technology and brands. Resisting these positive changes because of the anti-china-rhetoric-of-the-day is foolish in more ways than one.

Please excuse the rant. To whom it concerns: I'm a caucasian male in North America, with no financial or employment ties to China, so far as I know.

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