China is really practicing what they preach by making the fruit of the workers’ labour available for all. They could have made infinitely more money by offering this as a service and that’s what every Western C-suite would do even if every engineer that worked on it wanted it made public. Both Huawei’s co-op leadership and presumably the Chinese government (even in Western “free market” capitalist countries decisions this significant by this big of a company would be subject to government oversight and export control) choosing to make it open source for free is saying a lot. They’re also seemingly not concerned about preventing the West from using their technology in the same way the West denies China use of their tech, despite the obvious strategic and economic benefits of having something the West doesn’t.
Same with a lot of other Chinese tech investments like Deepseek and RISC-V implementations.
I wonder if they’re making these things open source to counter the Western propaganda that Chinese tech has spyware or built in censorship. If so, I think they’ve made pretty good faith strides and if they’re hoping for countries like Canada to jump ship and work with them on tech instead of the US, I as a Canadian software developer would gladly work for a Chinese company over a US one.
It’s really great to see. I also love the fact that Huawei is owned cooperatively. It’s one of the biggest tech companies in the world now, and it’s completely worker owned.
China is really practicing what they preach by making the fruit of the workers’ labour available for all. They could have made infinitely more money by offering this as a service and that’s what every Western C-suite would do even if every engineer that worked on it wanted it made public. Both Huawei’s co-op leadership and presumably the Chinese government (even in Western “free market” capitalist countries decisions this significant by this big of a company would be subject to government oversight and export control) choosing to make it open source for free is saying a lot. They’re also seemingly not concerned about preventing the West from using their technology in the same way the West denies China use of their tech, despite the obvious strategic and economic benefits of having something the West doesn’t.
Same with a lot of other Chinese tech investments like Deepseek and RISC-V implementations.
I wonder if they’re making these things open source to counter the Western propaganda that Chinese tech has spyware or built in censorship. If so, I think they’ve made pretty good faith strides and if they’re hoping for countries like Canada to jump ship and work with them on tech instead of the US, I as a Canadian software developer would gladly work for a Chinese company over a US one.
It’s really great to see. I also love the fact that Huawei is owned cooperatively. It’s one of the biggest tech companies in the world now, and it’s completely worker owned.