• flashgnash
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    1 year ago

    This reminds me of when they announced that “home-grown Chinese OS” and it was just customized ubuntu

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      1 year ago

      Exactly. China, to my understanding, has great simple or simple-ish manufacturing but doesn’t really have a robust high-tech sector yet, and is almost a joke when it comes to basic research.