Post #4281161
2026-07-31 14:22 UTC
@kdkorte@fosstodon.org China has been into open source for a long time. It was a natural progression to apply it to its AI ventures and then offer the products at lower prices. It's what China did in Africa - flooding the markets with cheap Chinese products and undercutting local merchandise.
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@kdkorte@fosstodon.org 2026-07-31 14:23
@AAKL@infosec.exchange not just. In IT they fully embraced charging for services for free software
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@budududuroiu@hachyderm.io 2026-07-31 14:28
@AAKL@infosec.exchange @kdkorte@fosstodon.org I mean, flooding the world with cheap stuff is what you do when your domestic demand is weak, which for China, shows that their wild GDP growth wasn't shared with the median population