China’s government-anointed Git operator says it will become a Linux Foundation mirror

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Starting with just two projects - Baetyl and EdgeX - but eventually all code will be shared behind Great Firewall

 

A Chinese Git-as-a-service outfit named “Gitee” claims it has struck a deal with the Linux Foundation to mirror its projects behind the great firewall.

 

In August 2020 Gitee announced that a consortium of ten companies and Open Source China had chosen it to provide the collaborative and open facilities outlined in China’s 2016-2020 Software and Information Technology Service Industry Development Plan.

 

Gitee is now considered China’s de facto Git service. While it is not clear why Gitee got the gig over its rivals, it is known that China is not a fan of GitHub and has blocked it more than once on account of the free-wheeling commentary that can be found alongside code.

 

Which brings us to this week when Gitee announced that it has formed a “cooperative relationship” with The Linux Foundation that will see the Foundation’s projects mirrored to the Chinese service.

 

The collaboration is starting with just two projects - the edge computing project Baetyl and the industrial IoT edge computing framework EdgeX Foundry – but Gitee says over time it will mirror all Linux Foundation projects.

 

Gitee’s announcement, processed by online translation tools, says the new relationship “demonstrates the Linux Foundation’s recognition of Gitee in the domestic open source industry.”

 

The Register cannot, however, find a Linux Foundation statement about the relationship. We have approached the Foundation for comment and confirmation. ®

 

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[steven36]

They use Linux in China too it's  the Official China Mirror of Linux Foundation

 

https://gitee.com/linuxfoundation

 

 

Recently, the Linux Foundation and Gitee have reached a cooperative arrangement and will gradually setup official mirror repositories for many of the foundation’s projects in Gitee in order to ensure that developers in China can have local access to projects hosted in the Linux Foundation. This will help Chinese developers to participate in its open source community more fully. In the future, more Linux Foundation projects will establish official mirror repositories on Gitee with the eventual goal of having most all projects with mirror repositories in China.

 

The first phase of the official mirror sites on Gitee is edge computing project Baetyl and the industrial IoT edge computing framework EdgeX Foundry.

 

Baetyl

 

Baetyl is an open edge computing framework of Linux Foundation Edge that extends cloud computing, data and service seamlessly to edge devices. It can provide temporary offline, low-latency computing services including device connection, message routing, remote synchronization, function computing, video capture, AI inference, status reporting, configuration ota etc.

 

Repository link: https://gitee.com/baetyl

 

EdgeX Foundry

 

EdgeX Foundry is a standardized interoperability framework for the development of industrial IoT edge computing. It is deployed on edge devices such as routers and switches for various sensor or other IoT devices and provides plug-and-play functions. The system can then manage these device and then collect and analyze their data, or export it to other edge computing applications or cloud computing centers for further processing.

 

Repository link: https://gitee.com/EdgexFoundry

 

What is Edge Computing?

 

Edge Computing is a distributed computing architecture that moves the computing of applications, data and services from the network center node to the edge node.

 

Edge computing decomposes large services that were originally handled entirely by central nodes, cut them into smaller and easier-to-manage parts, and distributed them to edge nodes for processing. Edge nodes are closer to user terminal devices, which can speed up data processing and transmission and reduce delay. Under this architecture, the analysis of data and the generation of knowledge are closer to the source of the data, so it is more suitable for processing big data.

 

About the Linux Foundation

 

The Linux Foundation was established in 2000 to provide support to the open source community through financial and intellectual resources, infrastructure, services, activities, and training.

 

At present, there are over 400 open source projects in the Linux Foundation, with a code value in excess of US$20 billion. Among them, there are many projects familiar to local developers in China such as Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, Jenkins and Hyperledger.

 

The Linux Foundation has more than 1,500 corporate members worldwide. In China, well-known companies such as Alibaba, Baidu, Huawei, Tencent and ByteDance are members of the Linux Foundation.

 

The Linux Foundation’s choice to cooperate with Gitee demonstrates the recognition of Gitee in the open source industry in China. Gitee will also take this cooperation as an opportunity to actively promote the development of the open source ecosystem in China and international collaboration, to accelerate development of the local open source ecosystem, and to provide local developers a higher and broader open source communication platform.

 

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The project  is is about a month in and it's all fine and dandy as long as it's something the Chinese Government allows there people to use but if it not  it will be ban from there git  same as  when stuff gets deleted from USA git sites  .  Most  Git sites  are Censorship as a Service Most recently seen on GitHub with Youtube-dl   the source code to  Youtube-dl  is at Gitee but it not very useful  for YouTube in China since Google services  is ban in China  . The generic extractor  may work OK  for some China streaming  sites using it with   something like XDM  .

[steven36]

As far as   the  Linux Kernel china already has a  Git mirror in Beijing  this  was made for China Jan 2020.

https://www.kernel.org/beijing-git-mirror.html

https://kernel.source.codeaurora.cn/

 

 

[Sylence]

chinese government is pathetic, they are afraid of people talking to each other, they block Github because it lets people comment on codes OMEGALOL 😆

 

" on account of the free-wheeling commentary that can be found alongside code."

 

and linux foundation gave in to their demands which is more pathetic. they desparately are looking for a partner and who better than big brother china.

 

they don't want capitalist Windows from the west xD

[steven36]

what you say is nonsense 

22 minutes ago, Sylence said:

and linux foundation gave in to their demands which is more pathetic. they desparately are looking for a partner and who better than big brother china.

 

they don't want capitalist Windows from the west xD

A bunch of nonsense

 

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Microsoft has had a presence in China for more than 20 years, entering the market in 1992. Our founder, Bill Gates, had the foresight to establish an office in Beijing.

https://news.microsoft.com/about-microsofts-presence-in-china/

 

Linux  is not regulated by the USA Federal goverment like Microsoft is .Many Products made in China comes with  Windows and other  Software from the USA they capitalize on it just fine from what the USA Government allows   . But when the US Government  bans there  Tech  from doing business with them they have no choice but to adopt Linux . As far as I know all almost all Tech has adopted China and the ones  that have not like Google wants too again .

 

You want to rant about Linux having  a virtual presence  in China  when Microsoft and Apple  have  had a physical presence 20 years there ? That shows  what little you know about  Businesses  from the  USA that  make stuff over there   because of there  cheap labor.

[Sylence]

Having presence in China is different than this matter, don't mix things up.

China is specifically targeting Github to silence people and stop them from talking. and Linux jumped in and gave in to their demands instead.

 

p.s childish insults don't get you anywhere.

[steven36]

2 hours ago, Sylence said:

Having presence in China is different than this matter, don't mix things up.

China is specifically targeting Github to silence people and stop them from talking. and Linux jumped in and gave in to their demands instead.

 

p.s childish insults don't get you anywhere.

You act like  Tech  are not Businesses and they  have standards  when it comes to money. China Money spends just like USA Money does. Linux have more standards  than most now  with there new COC  they will fire you for acting obscene or at lest make  you go  get behavior management therapy  .  They all gave into  China 20 years ago   if you want to do business you have no choice Microsoft  make a  Chinese version of windows 10 and XBOX for China they even showed them the source code   .  With Open Source  people can make it themselves if they dont like the way it's made they can fork it.

 

So what  if Gitee is targeting GitHub  ?  So do  Gitlab  , Notabug and many others  there nothing wrong with competition  without it then you open up another  can of worms antitrust lawsuits . I belonged  to sites  in Asia  even China among others since  2007 many monitored  by communist Governments they was no different  than  any other sites  they  had a set of rules  you have to follow  .

 

When you  go to a Git site you should be talking about  the project  in the topic  your in , same  as if you go to a  warez  site you should be posting and talking about  warez .(There not social networks) conman sense  really 

 

You think China  should not have there  own Tech and not use Linux  like the west does ? Or they  should use  sites regulated  by Governments in the west ? Your too late  for this  many  Big Tech  outfits  from China belong to Linux   Just like  Microsoft and many others from the west  belongs  to Linux . China built the great   firewall  because  they dont  want there  people mingling with people from the west  unless it can be monitored by the CCP.  The Linux Foundation  has repos on GitHub for the west  if they didn't like Microsoft they could move   somewhere  else .So no one is complaining  but you and maybe the USA government.

 

All the  effort Microsoft  and other Closed Sourced  Tech Outfits spend  making stuff for China  is mostly in vain anyway  only Government  Regulated stuff is censored  they have a open black market  were you  can buy  anything from the west  that is just like what we have. So nobody buys that stuff  over there  they buy imports.

 

If you  want to compare some company  not giving  into China to Linux  it has to be a better example than    Microsoft  .

 

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The software giant has kept its business alive in the country by complying with strict local laws, despite the communist nation’s wide-reaching censorship.

 

 

Microsoft arrived in China in 1992 and opened its largest research and development centre outside the United States. It now employs around 6,200 people in China.

 

The ubiquitous Windows operating system is used in the vast majority of computers in China—despite Beijing promising in recent years to develop its own operating system. The company’s success has a downside, however, as its software is widely pirated.

 

The important Chinese market, which is very restrictive for foreign firms, represents a drop in the ocean of Microsoft’s business, accounting for barely 1.8 percent of its turnover, president Brad Smith said at the beginning of the year.

 

Microsoft’s Bing is one of the few foreign search engines operating in China—although it is far behind its local competitors Baidu and Sogou, which dominate the market.

 

Bill Gates

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has long embodied a model of success in the eyes of many Chinese people and his books are bestsellers in the country.

 

President Xi Jinping visited the company’s headquarters on a state visit to the US in 2015, where he met with Gates and his wife.

 

Today, as the head of his humanitarian Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the 64-year-old has the prestige of a head of state in Beijing

 

Censorship and control

China censors all subjects considered politically sensitive in the name of stability, and internet giants are urged to block unwanted content online.

 

Refusing to comply with Beijing’s strict demands, American giants Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, as well as Wikipedia and several other foreign media, are blocked by China’s “great firewall”.

 

Microsoft, however, operates its professional LinkedIn network in the country by complying with the draconian censorship rules through a local joint venture.

Skype and Teams, its other two big platforms, are also available in China.

 

It’s not all smooth sailing though, with Bing temporarily taken offline last year, prompting speculation the search engine had been blocked by censors.

 

Video games

In 2000 Beijing halted the sale of all consoles because of their alleged negative effects on the “mental health” of young users, although they remained available illegally.

 

After the ban was lifted, Microsoft in 2014 was the first foreign firm to break into the video games market in China with its Xbox One console.

 

 Windows

In , 2003 China has signed up for Microsoft's new Government Security Program (GSP), giving the Chinese government access to the source code of Microsoft's Windows operating system software, Microsoft said Friday. The agreement was signed by Microsoft and the China Information Technology Security Certification Center.Mar 3, 2003

 

Also in 2014, the Chinese competition authorities opened an anti-monopoly investigation against Microsoft and its Windows software.

 

Around 100 inspectors raided the group’s offices in four Chinese cities, confiscating files and questioning employees.

 

When President Xí Jìnpíng  visit the U.S. in 2015 of all places he visit Microsoft  lol.

 

Since China don't make Microsoft  much money  and they been there   for over  20 years an they only turn over a measly 1 .8 percent of profits  they have done way worse  than 90% of  the others  from the USA there they may as well  leave are  you mad that Linux can make money  from China  but MS never could?

 

[Sylence]

@steven36

it's about banning free speech, Linux community did a silly and pathetic move by accepting their demands. Github stays strong

[steven36]

3 hours ago, Sylence said:

@steven36

it's about banning free speech, Linux community did a silly and pathetic move by accepting their demands. Github stays strong

You don't have free speech on  private sites  even though  platforms   have protection  against  what people  say . Your only allowed to say  what they allow within there  rules and what fits there agenda . It's like if you visit someone's home and they don't allow you to talk about certain things or a certain way  they have a right to  kick you out . It's Same as in a private work place you dont have freedom  of speech talking to much can get you fired even.  Rules that apply in public don't apply in private in the USA.

 

That's why some in goverment wants to take there protections away . Once side  fells they not doing enough to  censor the internet  and the other feels like there biased toward them . But both sides wants  to take it away and be able to sue  them based  on what you say. But  unless you live in the USA  the 1st amendment don't  apply to you just like the 4th  one don't .The NSA is only legally allowed to spy on people outside USA. When the Riaa  took down YouTube-DL  they was citing German law  and use a USA  DMCA  to take it down  but the guy that make it is in Germany.  So USA  law don't apply to him. Other countries can already sue sites for not censoring there platforms.

 

 

[Sylence]

Still amazed how pathetic Linux foundation jumped in, not considering freedom of speech and gave in to China. people talked a little in Github, so what, made China so scared