If Chinas leadership was smart they would push for open source commodity ics.
Opensource always wins and they could do a run around the US where old technologies like x86 die and all the experience built around then becomes irrelevant.
Opensource always wins and they could do a run around the US where old technologies like x86 die and all the experience built around then becomes irrelevant.
They aren't. So they are themselves either 'not very smart' or the contributions from 'open sourcing' is not actually very valuable. I think it's the latter.
But, as is often the case, decisions that are optimal at the margin can often lead to suboptimal outcomes in aggregate.
I'm not convinced that's the case in IC fabrication, but its not impossible.
In terms of a trade war this has all the downsides of dumping products on the US firms with none of the downsides to the rest of the economy outside of the very top end of the supply side.
They open sourced their fabs, and random farmers on collectives would come home (while starving) and make improvements in fab technology by candlelight.
If only they had you to guide them, with your advanced knowledge of economics, trade and process technology.
Unless you want to talk to me about the fabs in Portugal and Mexico in 1990 when compared to the ones in Bulgaria and the USSR you're making my point for me.
Communism is great if you like hunger and oppressive stupidity. "But it's never really been tried!" - No, it has: it is fundamentally incompatible with freedom and/or intellect.
Nobody is buying what you're selling, champagne socialist.
Zero evidence of this claim at any level.
One, insulting others on this forum isn't productive. Two, our broader discussion is about Chinese technological policy. I doubt anyone in Beijing is concerned about victory by way of market failure.
You forgot about Canonical.
But the real point is, in the wild, the Linux kernel predominates.
Every Android user is a Linux kernel user. Every Chromebook user is a Linux kernel user. Every iOS user is a Unix user. Every Google server is a Linux kernel installation.
The fact is, Linux/Unix rules. Except for the corporate desktop, where Windows predominates, at least for most (uninteresting) instances of "corporate".
Only if you define making money as directly selling... A big point of free software is that it is the user who makes the money !
I'd say that's a win. (But agree that Linux hasn't necessarily won over Windows in any general sense).