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I expect that much more will be gained than lost in the process. China has been doing huge investments into open source because that makes more sense than starting from scratch. So, what we're going to see is a lot of proprietary software being replaced with open alternatives.
China's use of opensource isn't exactly in the spirit of open-source though, is it?
As an example, most companies in China don't even release the linux kernel source code after they modify it, as they are required by GPL.
So they're building mega-corps on the back of opensource, just like the western counterparts. That's capitalism 101.
Chinese companies release plenty of open source in practice. Meanwhile, cooperatively owned companies like Huawei are nothing like western capitalism.
It's that true? Never heard of this.
What I understood is they don't release it on the public internet as we do, but it is accessible for others inside China. How exactly it is achieved is still I have no clue of. I heard this in some podcast.
Plenty of Chinese companies release stuff right on GitHub, and contribute directly to popular open source projects though. Here's just one example https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design
Yes it is not in alignment with the spirit of open source. In the "industrial districts" there is no validity for copyrights. Means if one company developed something, any other can adapt it without any restriction, even without a license. This is very counter intuitive to our capitalistic rules. But this policy essentially forces you to make progress as quick as possible, else someone else will adapt it and make a product out of it. Then you lose all the market.
China is forcing companies to make money out of capitalistic economies, but restricts the "knowledge" or "technology" accumulation into a few mega corporations.
At least this is the theory. But as everywhere else corruption and hunger for power screws up things in China also.