A dose of open-source competition could lower chip prices and increase innovation
chips in its fitness bands. Were Android not open source, Huawei would be in an even deeper hole than it already is.development in the past year; it is also keen to develop a technology ecosystem that minimises foreign dependence . In an effort to reassure the companies using its technology, theMany in the West, meanwhile, see China’s growing technological prowess as a malign development.
Here too, open-source technologies can begin to change the mood. Most Chinese products remain closed-source “black boxes” containing software and hardware whose inner workings are unknown. Particularly for software, and to some extent with hardware, an open-source model would give buyers the ability to compare what they have with what they were promised. To the extent that they can verify, they will not have to trust.
The tech war is a battle for influence between an incumbent superpower and an aspirant one. A complete rupture would be extraordinarily costly and force most countries to take sides. Open-source computing can help calm tempers. That would be good for everybody."Open season"
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