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TokyoKid | 6 years ago
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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