Why China is Giving Away Its Tech For Free
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/17/2123211/why-china-is-giving-away-its-tech-for-free
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> [...] the [1]rise in China of open technology , which relies on transparency and decentralisation, is awkward for an authoritarian state. If the party's patience with open-source fades, and it decides to exert control, that could hinder both the course of innovation at home, and developers' ability to export their technology abroad.
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> China's open-source movement first gained traction in the mid-2010s. Richard Lin, co-founder of Kaiyuanshe, a local open-source advocacy group, recalls that most of the early adopters were developers who simply wanted free software. That changed when they realised that contributing to open-source projects could improve their job prospects. Big firms soon followed, with companies like Huawei backing open-source work to attract talent and cut costs by sharing technology.
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> Momentum gathered in 2019 when Huawei was, in effect, barred by America from using Android. That gave new urgency to efforts to cut reliance on Western technology. Open-source offered a faster way for Chinese tech firms to take existing code and build their own programs with help from the country's vast community of developers. In 2020 Huawei launched OpenHarmony, a family of open-source operating systems for smartphones and other devices. It also joined others, including Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent, to establish the OpenAtom Foundation, a body dedicated to open-source development. China quickly became not just a big contributor to open-source programs, but also an early adopter of software. JD.com, an e-commerce firm, was among the first to deploy Kubernetes.
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> AI has lately given China's open-source movement a further boost. Chinese companies, and the government, see open models as the quickest way to narrow the gap with America. DeepSeek's models have generated the most interest, but Qwen, developed by Alibaba, is also highly rated, and Baidu has said it will soon open up the model behind its Ernie chatbot.
[1] https://www.economist.com/business/2025/06/17/why-china-is-giving-away-its-tech-for-free
Logical outcome of a tech diaspora (Score:3)
Triggers organic growth in any welcoming community. Sleeping with the enemy is profitable until it isn't, then forces converge to forge an alternative. As long as the source is open???.. I'm having a hard time thinking of anything to complain about.
They are not giving it away (Score:1)
Trust your own lying eyes, CCP is not giving anything away for free. They want control and you dependent on it.
giving away their technology (Score:1)
LMAO! Yeah, and with 3,593 back doors to the CCP.
They're communists lol (Score:2)
Despite whatever slander American propagandists want to say, they have different incentives. An American magazine calling China authoritarian is the pot calling the kettle black.
Not speaking of freedom (Score:1)
The real issue is that they are speaking of "open source" and not about freedom for people.
The communist party likes the utilitaristic approach of "open source" and do NOT like to speak about freedom for people.
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Shenzhen is the New Silicon Valley. Netcraft confirms it.
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Why?