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Certain countries (China) have used this as a way to gain access to technologically advanced source code. They then turn around and share that code to domestic
by URSpider94 8y ago
Certain countries (China) have used this as a way to gain access to technologically advanced source code. They then turn around and share that code to domestic industry so that they can develop competing products that blatantly rip off the foreign companies.
- EGreg 8y agoI like that improvements in code are available to everyone. Why not? Collaboration is far superior to competition as you can see Wikipedia beating Britannica and so on. We just criticize it using our current capitalistic paradigm.
- URSpider94 8y agoYou are confusing open source with theft. I never said that China was open-sourcing the code, I said they are misappropriating it and giving it to specific Chinese companies. And, they certainly aren’t mandating that the Chinese companies return their improvements to the commons, or even to the company they stole from.