What is happening right now with Huawei is serving as a warning to others. C++, Python, and Perl, are those Chinese inventions? So what if they are open source? Perhaps you do not know this but because of what is happening with Huawei, legal analysts and computer experts are raging -- behind closed doors -- on what to do if the US government decide to include base programming languages under the umbrella ban on hardware and
SOFTWARE.
In sum, the entire article is about how China's model of governance -- authoritarian -- and Huawei's ties to the Party, effectively placed open source software into candidacy for a US government ban. The last paragraph is significant to this discussion.
There is an old gambling adage: Don’t bet against the house. So long as Trump holds office — and does not reverse course on the Huawei ban — Huawei is in China’s house. They will be at the mercy of the Chinese government and market. Large companies by design are adverse to risk, making Huawei very unlikely to do anything that ruffles the government’s feathers. This means we are likely to see less freedom and less openness, not more.
See that ? Huawei is in China's house.
IF the software ban extends to base programming languages, practically everything TSMC, SMIC, and anyone that can do for Huawei will be for naught, which mean Huawei's foreign market is essentially doomed. Right now, the speculation is damaged, but
IF the software ban is clearly specified to include base programming languages, it is doomed.
As Huawei struggles, Huawei's assets, intellectual and physical, will be considered too valuable to lose, so The Party will execute a hostile takeover of the company to save everything, further cementing the world's perception that there is no independence of any kind in China.
Yeah...Am speculating again, here. Wanna bet against that? It is a rhetorical question because we both know the answer: No, you will not bet against. You know better. When I said 'You know better', I was not being sarcastic or facetious in any way. I said that out of respect for your claim to have semicon experience, which I will take at face value.
You know better but you kept silent to protect your fellow Chinese nonsensical arguments.