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Not everything has to be about politics. Sometimes a big company investing in an open source database it already uses is just trying to improve its own infrastr
by patrickaljord 9y ago
Not everything has to be about politics. Sometimes a big company investing in an open source database it already uses is just trying to improve its own infrastructure, not trying to hack your country.
- scarmig 9y agoThat's besides the point. Even if every single employee at Alibaba is well-intentioned (which is close enough to reality to be considered the case), in the end the government of the PRC has the capability to coerce the company to exert influence in a direction we almost certainly wouldn't like. The only question is whether the PRC would consider the trade offs worth it.
- sangnoir 9y ago> in the end the government of the PRC has the capability to coerce the company to exert influence in a direction we almost certainly wouldn't like. It's open source- when that happens, you can fork it and influence it in the direction that you like. I mean if the GCHQ has an active github account[1] - I think the PRC gets a pass to publish open source, let alone Alibaba. 1. https://github.com/gchq https://github.com/gchq
- QAPereo 9y agoEverything involving huge amounts of money in China is at least tangentially political.