The conglomerate was one of several Chinese companies given the designation at the start of the year.
  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Keep it a note that having them listed as a Chinese military company could let US put pressure against open source groups to not collaborate with them; very similar to how US forced Linux Foundation to kick off decade old russian collaborators.

    • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      That’s a bad mischaracterization. You cannot force someone to do something voluntarily . Torvald spoke in support of it. I’m sure many governments and groups using the Linux kernel and open source want Developers that are vetted. Or can be reasonably sure won’t be forced to act maliciously under duress.