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I always found lack of participation from the Chinese community in large free software projects like Gnome jarring: translations would just show up, but you wou
by necovek 5y ago
I always found lack of participation from the Chinese community in large free software projects like Gnome jarring: translations would just show up, but you wouldn't see them complaining about bad/hard to translate strings and similar.
There is either a linguistic or a cultural divide, but I don't see how government policy can change that.
Maybe it's just the fact that free software is portrayed as "communist" by detractors, and they've got enough of it at home :)
- raxxorrax 5y agoI think the language barrier is a huge issue. It is quite amazing how some broke it and I wouldn't say the engagement is low. You might want to compare it with other Asian nations, but in some cases you just accidentally notice that you are in exchange with someone from there because the default language is English, which is obviously easier to learn for anyone using the latin script.