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Seeing Huawei got recently blacklisted for all US made chips, parts and some Android services from Google, an interesting question to ask is whether the US gove
by dis-sys 7y ago
Seeing Huawei got recently blacklisted for all US made chips, parts and some Android services from Google, an interesting question to ask is whether the US government will one day force some foreign companies (e.g. Huawei, ZTE and DJI for example) to stop using programming languages invented & implemented by US companies.
- dhkxh 7y agoThat's not how open source works.
- dis-sys 7y agoThe license can change any time they want. They can change the license to prevent certain companies from using future releases and/or security patches. Let's don't forget the fact that Huawei had legally binding contracts with all those US suppliers.
- majewsky 7y agoSo? Just fork the last freely-licensed Version then.
- dis-sys 7y agothen start to use clean room process to reimplement all future bug fixes? nice!
- _ph_ 7y agoWhere comes the expectation from, that someone else fixes your problems for free? If you clone Go now, you get a robust codebase for free, and you could do any maintenance on your own (as a reasonably large organization)
- grumpydba 7y ago> The license can change any time they want. They can change the license to prevent certain companies from using future releases and/or security patches. Until then, it's a bsd inspired license. And you get code from Cox, Griesmer, Taylor, Pike, Hudson and Clements under those terms. It's a big team on several aspects. So you can remove your tinfoil hat and check the code for yourself. It is valuable.
- krick 7y agoI don't see how this even would be possible. It's not like they disclose the source code of whatever software they write in order to sell in US.
- nudq 7y agoWhat a strange conclusion. Not likely, but much more likely than that, is that they'll force foreign companies to use Go and other products controlled by US corporations.