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Why China is giving away its tech for free


Its newfound fondness for open-source is awkward for an authoritarian state

Underpinning the digital economy is a deep foundation of open-source software, freely available for anyone to use. The majority of the world’s websites are run using Apache and Nginx, two open-source programs. Most computer servers are powered by Linux, another such program, which is also the basis of Google’s Android operating system.

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