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Tencent Joins the Linux Foundation as a Platinum Member (thenextweb.com)
Chinese tech giant Tencent has joined the Linux Foundation as a platinum member. From a report: Tencent is one of a few companies to offer the highest level of support to the Linux Foundation. Other tech companies in this stable include IBM, Microsoft, and Intel, as well as fellow Chinese titan Huawei. As part of the deal, Tencent will take a chair on the Foundation's board of directors. It has also promised to offer "further support and resources" to the Foundation's efforts. So far, this has taken the form of Tencent donating several pieces of its software. Already, it's bequeathed TSeer, its service discovery tool, as well as TARS, which is the company's microservices platform. Valued at nearly $500 billion, Tencent is a behemoth of a company. It holds a massive sway over the Chinese tech market, and is spreading its cash (and influence) overseas with strategic investments in companies like Epic Games and Riot Games.
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To Linux? Seems redundant.
While I doubt that they be able to cause any harm, I am super weary of Tencent and any of their actions, since they're participating in China's "Social Credit" system.
so you are telling us that you penetrated an old man's anus...
Are you sure that that's an insult to trump?
Now if they could only get Hundredthou...
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
It's quite reasonable to distrust them, but you need to remember the organization they're joining already contains Microsoft as a "Platinum Member", so I doubt they'll make things worse.
The "Linux Foundation" has long been more like an arm of the Chamber of Commerce than a supporter of Free Software.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
Tencent is basically the Facebook of China.
Anus is latin for old woman