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Yeah so this is my hunch too (which I want to prove/disprove) When you think about it, there is almost a unidirectional knowledge transfer: plenty of Chinese p
by yomly 7y ago
Yeah so this is my hunch too (which I want to prove/disprove)
When you think about it, there is almost a unidirectional knowledge transfer: plenty of Chinese people will study and work abroad and then go back to China. By comparison, how many people do you know of who do the reverse - in terms of ratios, how do these numbers compare? Open source code and academic research is all out there in English for people to read and absorb, but China also has the scale and funding to then internally propel these ideas and then publish in Chinese (if at all).
Though it sounds like there is some degree of open source and that Github is mostly the defacto in China too.
- freeflight 7y ago> Though it sounds like there is some degree of open source and that Github is mostly the defacto in China too. It's not just some degree, afaik Chinese companies have been really embracing open source [0]. Some argue this is the result of the Chinese cultural perspective that ideas are not owned by anyone, which open-source perfectly aligns with. [1] [0] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2016/02/tencent-and-why-open-source-is-about-to-explode-in-china/ https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2016/02/tencent-and-why... [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2018/10/25/the-digitization-of-china-and-opportunities-for-open-source-collaboration/#70ec826d281d https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2018/10/25/th...