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>There’s actually a lot of open source software made by Chinese people. If that is true and the software is any good, you should be able to name an open-source

>There’s actually a lot of open source software made by Chinese people. If that is true and the software is any good, you should be able to name an open-source project that we've heard of started by people living in China. DeepSeek released some models as open weights and some software for running the models. That's the only example I can think of.

wraptile 1y ago
China does have their own Github as gitee.com¹ which runs a fork of Gitea but it's basically dead because it's impossible to have anything like Github with the current censorship aparatus. Here's the excerpt from wiki: > On 18 May 2022, Gitee announced all code will be manually reviewed before public availability.[4][5] Gitee did not specify a reason for the change, though there was widespread speculation it was ordered by the Chinese government amid increasing online censorship in China.[4][6] 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitee
Fade_Dance 1y ago
I've recently been exploring PKM/knowledge management programs, and the best open source one is a Chinese project - SiYuan. I have a feeling that their collaborative hacker culture is more hardware oriented, which would be a natural extension from the tech zones where 500 companies are within a few miles of each other and engineers are rapidly popping in and out and prototyping parts sometimes within a day. Anecdotally, I've dealt with Chinese collaborative community projects in the ThinkPad space, where they have come together to design custom motherboards to modernize old ThinkPads. Of course there was a lot of software work as well when it comes to BIOS code, Thunderbolt, etc. I remember thinking how watching that project develop was like peering into another world with a parallel hacker culture that just developed... differently. Oh there's also a Chinese project that's going to modernize old Blackberries with 5G internals. Cool stuff!

wraptile 1y ago

China does have their own Github as gitee.com¹ which runs a fork of Gitea but it's basically dead because it's impossible to have anything like Github with the current censorship aparatus. Here's the excerpt from wiki: > On 18 May 2022, Gitee announced all code will be manually reviewed before public availability.[4][5] Gitee did not specify a reason for the change, though there was widespread speculation it was ordered by the Chinese government amid increasing online censorship in China.[4][6] 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitee

Fade_Dance 1y ago

I've recently been exploring PKM/knowledge management programs, and the best open source one is a Chinese project - SiYuan. I have a feeling that their collaborative hacker culture is more hardware oriented, which would be a natural extension from the tech zones where 500 companies are within a few miles of each other and engineers are rapidly popping in and out and prototyping parts sometimes within a day. Anecdotally, I've dealt with Chinese collaborative community projects in the ThinkPad space, where they have come together to design custom motherboards to modernize old ThinkPads. Of course there was a lot of software work as well when it comes to BIOS code, Thunderbolt, etc. I remember thinking how watching that project develop was like peering into another world with a parallel hacker culture that just developed... differently. Oh there's also a Chinese project that's going to modernize old Blackberries with 5G internals. Cool stuff!