Chapter 13. When China Dances with OSS

Boon-Lock Yeo, Louisa Liu, and Sunil Saxena

One of the key challenges for China's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry is to ensure that China has the right software solutions to support usage models and value requirements. The advent of open source software (OSS), along with its business model with respect to intellectual property and value proposition, brings this business force to the fast-growing software industry in China. That, in turn, will provide an opportunity for the OSS community to promote and popularize this model throughout the People's Republic of China (PRC). This chapter analyzes how OSS has developed in China and where it is heading.