Chinese OS and software ecosystem
- Thread starter Jiang ZeminFanboy
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Is this real?
Seems too stupid to be true.
These US congress doofuses are half a step away from trying to ban exports of "science" to China
Creating an instruction set can be hard, but it's far from impossible. Also China already has their own domestic designed instruction sets.
If this is their real policy, It's like closing the barn door 5 min after the horse bolted.
i don't think they can ban China's participation in RISC-V, but rather American firms from working with Chinese firms in RISC-V, which in effect would either sink RISC-V or make RISC-V completely off limit to American tech firms, since Chinese firms are more than half of the RISC-V market
The point of adopting RISC-V is the software written for it can be run on any RISC-V CPU/SOC, regardless who designed/made them. Office software developed in Canada can be run natively on a CPU designed and developed by Huawei. The potential market for Huawei/other Chinese CPUs is the entire world (minus the American market) instead of just the Chinese one.
Lmaoo they gonna target Open Source movement soon.
"You just committed a patch to Linux kernel? NOOOO you just helped see see pee!!!!"
These clownish politicians, an ISA is just a set of textbook instructions on how to build processors to run a set of specific compiled software. There is nothing that can stop Chinese companies from using RISC-V, the foundation doesn't charge revenue, they don't sell products like compiler or emulators. In the worst case scenerio Chinese companies are going to use the ISA and contribute nothing back, no money, no patches, no ideas, nothing, they will just use the ISA to make revenue and they could just folk the project and maintain they ISA themselves.
It has happened already.
The US still has laws to ban export of certain encryption algorithms, open source implementations included, to sanctioned countries such as Iran, NK, Cuba, etc.
After all, open source projects hosted in the west are still subject to the local laws. The authorities have many ways to keep sanctioned entities from accessing the code repositories of open source projects.
Russians became the latest victims after the war in Ukraine broke out. Github, for example, deleted (some?) repositories owned by Russians without warning. Gitlab then announced to stop hiring citizens of Russia, China (and perhaps Iran?).
Open source projects are run by human beings. Human beings have different politic views.
The majority of the open source contributors are social justice warriors and anti-establishment on many issues. But some of them can still side with the mainstream narratives sometimes. For example, we have the story in which project of notepad++, a quite popular editor on Windows, labelled a release specifically to support the rioters in HK. I have seen in a few instances where people in the Rust and Debian communities pushing to shut the doors for Huawei and Loongson only because these Chinese companies are sanctioned by the US government.