alt Hacker NewsPlease don't conflate a volunteer effort with no expected economic gain with a very well funded company (or fleet of companies).
With the CCP's highly successful track record with subsuming other markets, Occam's razor applies to why they're doing this.
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It could be as simple as do open releases and publication at first to help recruit talent who want that or who want to make a name for themselves. learned from the likes of... OpenAI, Google, Meta, Emad
IDK how this doesn't apply to American tech corporations too? Or is it only scary when America corporations face actual competition nowadays where they can't rely on the US government to bomb/sanction competitors?
1.) Majority of debian contributions are from people paid for it.
2.) It is scary because they do what sillicon valley did for decades? While it bragged about disruption being the goal?
There is clearly an anti-China bias here. Show me comments demonstrating the same level of distrust against Google for open-sourcing projects like Tensorflow, Kubernetes, Flutter, Chromium, etc.