Chinese Open Source: A Definitive History - by Kevin Xu
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Open source used to be a niche topic.
Open source used to be a niche topic. China tech also used to be a niche topic. Thanks to AI, the combined topic of “Chinese open source technology” is the topic du jour. It is the story that everyone is trying to understand and make decisions about, from the hacker houses in San Francisco, to the policymaking chambers in Washington, Brussels, New Delhi, and, yes, even Beijing. I first started writing about Chinese open source over five years ago in this newsletter as a pet topic. Back then, few people in the tech or policy world paid much attention to what Chinese developers were doing on…
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