so, as much as many of us here have tinkered in the realm of Free Libre & Open Source software and hardware development, the Chinese have literally ran away with that shit and grown their software development culture almost exclusively on FLOSS.
their investment on Open/Libre Office is a symbol of how they see tech as a whole.
it makes sense. FLOSS is socialist economics applied to software development.
this is why tech isn’t ahistorical or politically neutral. /🧵