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title: "This blog post (sadly on substack) is truly fascinating : Two years after the…"
date: 2026-03-13T16:50:12.885Z
author: Ricardo Mendes
url: https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/03/13/13c2e/
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# This blog post (sadly on substack) is truly fascinating : Two years after the…

This [blog post](https://interconnect.substack.com/p/chinese-open-source-a-definitive) (sadly on substack) is truly fascinating : 

> Two years after the campaign started, in August 2021, China’s Supreme People’s Court, along with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, officially ruled “996” illegal. It was, as far as I know, the first time that a grassroots, developer-led campaign used open source organizing mechanisms to enforce not just intellectual property norms, but labor rights norms, and ultimately ended in a legal victory.