It’s probably because those with decision making authority have no idea what open source is and how it works.
That being said, China is a huge contributor to open source. For example Huawei and Alibaba are among top kernel contributors.
Turkey has a pretty ambitious plan for Linuxification. Same with the Münich city government in Germany.
Here are some google alternatives:
Brave Search: https://search.brave.com/
SearX instances: https://searx.space/
The company here has a massive conflict of interest. The US government is a big customer of theirs. There is no reason to take anything they say seriously.
You and I don’t know because we don’t have access to the evidence ourselves. It’s just “Company publishes report supporting the arguments of its large customer”.
It cites analysis from Chainalysis, a contractor for US government.
BBC is owned by the UK government.
No, I’m just saying that I don’t trust the word of American government or their affiliates on this.
Are any of those articles true?
This is a well known propaganda tactic from American intelligence agencies.
reuters is just reporting on a blog article, and assuming that the people who published that blog are what they say they are.
this is tabloid level nonsense.
Those two rules are good common sense rules.
very likely
Not really unexpected in my opinion.
Having an open ISA like RISC-V increases competition in the market. Better for us consumers.
Metaverse
I agree that it’s not completely open, but having an open ISA is alteady a huge step forward.
Huawei is not the only one. Almost all software companies have some KPI that employees are farming. (speaking from experience here)