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China pins its hopes on Gitee as an open source alternative to Microsoft’s Github ..

Gitee says it is the second-largest open source software platform in the world and wants to challenge the popular GitHub in China

By Masha Borak  Published: 11:20am, 28 Aug, 2020

Chinese developers have been relying on GitHub to build up the country’s tech industry. But with tensions between China and the US, the country is now looking for a plan B.

See https://gitee.com

If you’re not a technology enthusiast, you may not be aware that some of your favourite online platforms rely on open source software. Watching a film on Netflix, swiping through Instagram pictures and many other online activities are all aided by open source technology.

Much of this tech can be found on the largest host of source code in the world, Microsoft-owned and San Francisco-based GitHub.

Similar to their peers around the world, Chinese developers have been relying on it to build up the country’s tech industry. But with tensions rising between China and the US, and Chinese companies like Huawei Technologies being cut off from American tech, the country is looking for a plan B.

That plan B is called Gitee and it is run by Open Source China (OSChina), which calls itself the largest open source community in the country.

In July, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) chose 7-year-old Gitee to construct an independent, open-source code hosting platform for China, the company said last week ... (free limit reached)

Ref: https://www.scmp.com/abacus/tech/article/3099107/china-pins-its-hopes-gitee-open-source-alternative-microsofts-github