alt Hacker NewsThat's also weird, in this reality, isn't it? You've got russians, chinese, etc, supposedly antagonistic to the western cultural hegemony, but then they just rely on western technology tool-chains. If I was guiding any of these countries a close to number 1 priority, technologically speaking, would be to create a completely independent software tool-chain. And talk through adaptors.
I think China uses NeoKylin, and Russia Astra Linux, both based on Linux.
I don't see China antagonistic to the west - they want autonomy, and don't share many of the values, but they're open to a wealthy West spending lots of money in Chinese goods.
Russia, at least its government, is a bit more, especially recently. But anyway, why reinvent the wheel when a battle tested FOSS is there for the taking?