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How does it make sense for there to be ‘splits’ on a regional basis? By definition, there cannot be any effective barriers between any part of ‘open source’ an
by MichaelZuo 2y ago
How does it make sense for there to be ‘splits’ on a regional basis?
By definition, there cannot be any effective barriers between any part of ‘open source’ and any other part, assuming they are not made under mutually contradictory licenses.
So there cannot possibly be any differences lasting much longer than the time it takes to review the relevant codebase.
- __MatrixMan__ 2y ago"Open source" doesn't require that the readme, comments, issues, and PR's use a language that you know. So depending on who you are, reaching the point where you're able to effectively collaborate could be the work of years. Aside from that though, I agree. I can't see and technical reasons why one wouldn't mix oss from both communities, thereby bridging it into a single community.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoThere are plenty of translation tools available to overcome linguistic barriers with a few clicks. Which is more effort than zero clicks, but hardly a significant barrier. And some of those tools could actually be better, in pretty much any language pair, then the majority of native speakers themselves.