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China’s Open Source Activity Surged in 2020Category: Database, Microsoft, Kubernetes, github
By: B. Cameron Gain on May 5, 2021Leave a CommentActivity among China-based open source project contributors and creators surged in 2020, as Alibaba, Huawei, Tencent and other leading Chinese tech companies are playing an increasingly important role in the open source development community worldwide. According to the recently released Open Source Contributor Index (OSCI) ranking, as of March 2021, Alibaba, Huawei, and Tencent collectively ranked in the top 20 worldwide for the first time.
Microsoft, Google and Red Hat ranked first, second and third, respectively.Alibaba, as well as China-based Pingcap, came within striking distance of reaching the top 20 worldwide open source ranking for 2020 measured in activity; the total number of forks, commits, stars, pull requests, issue comments and other metrics, according to the GitHub 2020 Digital Insight Reportreleased in April.
Torsten Volk, an analyst for Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), says the increased popularity of and activity in China-based open source projects are proof that the concept behind open source software actually works.
Remember that the core idea behind open source software is not to give out your secret sauce for other companies to enjoy for free, but to spend the least possible amount of funding on building commodity code.”What, if anything, China-backed open source projects means for the community worldwide — as well as China’s influence in the industry in general – remain to be seen.
Microsoft, Google and Red Hat ranked first, second and third, respectively.Alibaba, as well as China-based Pingcap, came within striking distance of reaching the top 20 worldwide open source ranking for 2020 measured in activity; the total number of forks, commits, stars, pull requests, issue comments and other metrics, according to the GitHub 2020 Digital Insight Reportreleased in April.
Torsten Volk, an analyst for Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), says the increased popularity of and activity in China-based open source projects are proof that the concept behind open source software actually works.
Remember that the core idea behind open source software is not to give out your secret sauce for other companies to enjoy for free, but to spend the least possible amount of funding on building commodity code.”What, if anything, China-backed open source projects means for the community worldwide — as well as China’s influence in the industry in general – remain to be seen.
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