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China's GDP is 10 Trillion dollars. Github is not at all important to China, other than a source of tools to citizens use to circumvent their authoritative regi
by billyhoffman 12y ago
China's GDP is 10 Trillion dollars. Github is not at all important to China, other than a source of tools to citizens use to circumvent their authoritative regime.
- sixbrx 12y ago> Github is not at all important to China If that were the case, I don't think they would have backed down and allowed access to Github again.
- click170 12y agoOr maybe by blocking it during the timeframe they did, they have accomplished their mission and there was no further need for blocking. I sincerely doubt github is at all important to China.
- morenoh149 12y agoagain, then why did they unblock it? it is important, we're in a new paradigm for software where developing in the open leads to higher quality software written faster than previous ways
- shiggerino 12y agoIt's hardly a new paradigm, it's just a place with a lot of software that you'd otherwise have to write from scratch. It's merely software development catching up with everything else.
- shiggerino 12y agoI'm sure Github and free software is a goldmine to the country that built its economy on copying other people's stuff. On the other hand, the capitalists running the communist party might scoff at the idea of software that everyone is allowed to copy, because that offers no advantage to the unscrupulous. At least I'd imagine they would scoff at copyleft, just like Github does.