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This is fine but what I’ve heard about China is that they operate as a low-trust society where the norm is to get away with as much as possible, even going beyo
by TaylorAlexander 4y ago
This is fine but what I’ve heard about China is that they operate as a low-trust society where the norm is to get away with as much as possible, even going beyond the legal limits if you don’t think the consequences will matter. So this idea that we have licenses and then on top of that we have social norms falls apart when you have a somewhat insular country with their own more permissive norms.
Now I am a huge proponent of open source and I think it’s important to make it work. But I wanted to point out that this idea of additional expectations is going to be difficult to find traction with in China.
- nullc 4y agoIt's a fine point, but same parties that will do that will ignore the licenses in any case.
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoWell Prusa was considering a less open but “source available” kind of license, which as you say would do nothing to stop unscrupulous people. Also we did have luck forcing Creality to release their source code once it was found that they violated the GPL.
- TylerE 4y agoWhy single out China? How does the average US VC behave? Is it cool when you call it "move fast and break things"?
- bayesian_horse 4y agoYou can get away with more in China. On the small scale, things like faking beer (seriously...), scamming people, and on the bigger scale as well.