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August 24, 2020 02:45 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5nx3yUWsAw4/chinas-ministry-of-it-picks-gitee-to-build-independent-open-source-code-hosting-platform-f
China's Ministry of IT Picks Gitee To Build 'Independent, Open-source Code Hosting Platform' for the Country As Tension With the U.S. Escalates
Rita Liao, reporting for TechCrunch: The technological decoupling between the U.S. and China has been a boon to Chinese firms -- from chipmakers for smartphones and electric vehicles through to software -- that are the backbones of millions of businesses' daily operations. Chinese companies might have established a firm grip on internet services for consumers, but many fundamental technologies undergirding hardware and enterprise software remain in the hands of Western companies. As tech businesses become increasingly entangled in broader geopolitical disputes, their users and clients are feeling the heat. Another area that has made the tech community restless is source code hosting. Chinese developers rely heavily on GitHub, as evident from an apparent government ban of the site in 2013 that prompted former Google China head Kai-Fu Lee to speak out. Now the China developer community is wary that political conflict may inflict GitHub. [...] Seven-year-old Gitee is at the center of China's push to localize businesses' source codes. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), one of China's top tech policymakers, recently picked (in Chinese) Gitee to construct an "independent, open-source code hosting platform for China." The project will be carried out by a consortium led by Open Source China, the Shenzhen-based firm behind its namesake open-source community and Gitee. The hosting service appears to be a government-led effort with support from research universities and participation from the private sector -- a group of 10 organizations including Huawei, which is itself suffering from supply chain disruption amid the political storm.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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