It it is very hard to call China communist these days. It is more of an unregulated capitalist society governed by a dictatorship.
probably because it is true. Take AMD for example if they had opened up their hardware designs for their GPUs they wouldn’t have lasted a year. The competition would have had dozens of chips available all offering what AMD offered. Mean while AMD would be laying off people and be getting ready to close due to lack of income.
You may may laugh but competition sucks. In this industry consider where Digital Equipment, Data General, Prime, Sun, Apollo, Amiga, Zenith, Tandem, Wang and likely hundreds more, are these days. Now none of these died of open hardware what they died from is competition that did something faster and cheaper. With China’s unfair and one way policies a company that releases a hardware design for a chip would’ve wiped out within a year.
There is a huge difference between the software as a service dealing of the free software world versus the hardware world. There is no capital to speak of with open software. FOSS developers are being paid for their knowledge not the software persay. With software you can actually benefit from somebody else using and improving. With hardware, if somebody uses your design you loose your shirt. Massive difference.
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You may may laugh but competition sucks. In this industry consider where Digital Equipment, Data General, Prime, Sun, Apollo, Amiga, Zenith, Tandem, Wang and likely hundreds more, are these days. Now none of these died of open hardware what they died from is competition that did something faster and cheaper. With China’s unfair and one way policies a company that releases a hardware design for a chip would’ve wiped out within a year.
There is a huge difference between the software as a service dealing of the free software world versus the hardware world. There is no capital to speak of with open software. FOSS developers are being paid for their knowledge not the software persay. With software you can actually benefit from somebody else using and improving. With hardware, if somebody uses your design you loose your shirt. Massive difference.
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