Context for the unaware, Deepin Linux is a popular (from what I can tell) Chinese distro, and it’s often given significantly more scrutiny and negative attention than other non-Chinese distros, for exactly the reasons you’d expect
Good ol’ 
Linux community once again (though god, I swear the Lemmy ones outside of here are even worse lol)
At least there’s some upvoted comments pointing out the absurdity and racism, but there’s also plenty of upvoted ones with the typical “those durned Chinese committed the highest of crimes by reposting an image on Twitter!! They’re all dirty thieves!!” and assuming that Deepin (a unique Linux distro with their own entire original desktop environment) must be some cheap knock-off without having even seen it
How can someone be into linux and think intellectual property should be respected?
There is some logic to that in terms of copyleft.
There is. But the whole point of the copyleft is to use copyright against itself to subvert it.
I know it’s reddit so of course it’s gonna be racist but I feel like the last few weeks have been especially bad on r/linux. I swear in that time span I’ve seen like 4 posts that basically amounted to “Distro from China… DAE China bad???”
You’d think people who were interested in open source would be more open minded but instead it’s just a bunch of libertarian STEMlords. Also I guarantee if any other distro’s twitter account like Fedora or Debian reposted that image none of these losers would bat an eye
If reposting is IP theft, they would have to give up reddit
If deepin removed the author’s credentials then it’s scummy on their part, but like some reddit comments mention, they could have come across the infographic from a third source without them, so we can’t know for sure.
This post itself is mid, the comments even suggest that it’s mid. Yet it still has nearly 1k upvotes. This is an apparent contradiction. Has /r/Linux been infiltrated by propaganda bots and agents?
Yeah that’s especially what got me about that post, it was so blatantly garbage and everyone was calling it out and yet it got an absurd amount of upvotes that isn’t even typical for the subreddit
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I don’t understand why this information is laid out in the form of a donut chart.
To be fair, every software is open source. It’s just that some are easier to crack than others.
I bet a majority of those racist posters suddenly very concerned about IP theft have pirated something in the last week.
Deepin just forked the image and made it better by removing the proprietary software (good on them) that the careless community member put in.
Deepin now owns that image due to a trial by better posting.
