incici comments on China is doubling down on Linux as trust for Microsoft erodes.

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[–] incici@lemmy.ml [S] 0 points 4 years ago* (4 children)

It's probably because those with decision making authority have no idea what open source is and how it works.

That being said, China is a huge contributor to open source. For example Huawei and Alibaba are among top kernel contributors.

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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 years ago* (3 children)

Hwawei has been called out for KPI farming on the Linux kernel (i.e. lots of bogus contributions to boost their support numbers): https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/18/153

There's some more insight on this Hackernews thread where an ex-Samsung employee defends Hwawei and notes it's not intentionally KPI farming, but rather poor internal performance tools.

I would gladly be proven wrong, but a quick Google search doesn't discuss any concrete contributions Hwawei makes (only Git simple git diff metrics, which fall under the discussions linked above)

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