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Expand Up @@ -9,14 +9,14 @@ The name `996.ICU` refers to **"Work by '996', sick in ICU"**, an ironic saying
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Related press coverage:
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* *RadiiChina:* [GitHub Protest Over Chinese Tech Companies’ “996” Culture Goes Viral](https://radiichina.com/github-protest-chinese-tech-996/)
* *Financial Times:* [China tech worker protest against long working hours goes viral](https://www.ft.com/content/72754638-55d1-11e9-91f9-b6515a54c5b1)
* *Wired:* [How GitHub is helping overworked Chinese programmers](https://www.wired.com/story/how-github-helping-overworked-chinese-programmers/)
* *Wired:* [How github is helping overworked Chinese programmers](https://www.wired.com/story/how-github-helping-overworked-chinese-programmers/)

See a [full list of press](externals/news_EN.md)

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### State Media
- **Xinhua News Agency editorial**: [The 996 shall disappear](http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2019-04/15/c_1124370790.htm)
- [The 996 shall disappear](http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2019-04/15/c_1124370790.htm)


### Capitalists
- **Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba**: `It is a huge blessing to be able to "996"`.
- **Richard Liu, founder of JD.com**: `We will never force our employee to work as "996"`.
(However, many anonymous employees claim that there is an internal **ranking list**, in which departments are **ranked** by overtime hours. The one which takes least overtime will be punished. And the leaders never leave paper trails when asking employees to work as "996".)
- **Bai Ya, founder of Youzan**: `This [adopting the "996" work schedule] will definitely be a right decision when we look back in a few years.`
- **Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba**: `It is a huge blessing to be able to '996'`.
- **Richard Liu, founder of JD.com**: `We will never force our employee to work as '996'`.
(However, as a result many anonymous employees claim that there is a **list** of departments which **ranked** them by overtime hours. The shortest will take punishments. And the leaders never leave evidences when asking employees to work as '996'.)
- **Bai Ya, founder of Youzan**: `This will definitely be a right decision when we look back in a few years.`

### Developers
- **Guido van Rossum, founder of Python**: [`The 996 work schedule is inhumane.`](https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1111628076801236993)
- **Guido van Rossum, founder of Python**: [`The '996' working schedule is inhumane.`](https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1111628076801236993)


Principles and purposes
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* This is not a political movement. We firmly uphold the labor law and request employers to respect the legitimate rights and interests of their employees.

* It is great progress from closed source to open source, and it will also be great progress from open source to emphasizing labor rights at the same time. What we want is to create an open source software license that advocates workers rights.
* It is great progress from closed source to open source, and it will also be great progress from open source to emphasizing labor rights at the same time. What we want is to create an open source software license that advocates workers' rights.

* We are willing to hear all positive and constructive proposals and advocate mature and responsible speech.


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Please feel free to [translate 996.ICUs contents](i18n/README.md), adjust the format, add some contents or fix grammatical errors. Please note that adding too many translations is getting off the track.
Please feel free to [translate 996.ICU's contents](i18n/README.md), adjust the format, add some contents or fix grammatical errors. Please note that adding too many translations is getting off the track.

Community powers
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- This draft is adapted from the MIT license. For a more detailed explanation, please see [Wiki](https://github.com/kattgu7/996-License-Draft/wiki). This license is designed to be compatible with all major open source licenses.
- For law professionals or anyone who is willing to contribute to future version directly, please go to [Anti-996-License-1.0](https://github.com/kattgu7/996-License-Draft). Thank you.


Donate
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We accept following crypto currencies:

- **ETH**(ERC20): `0x10802049762A2761B2473E6c4b00f807eedC876E`

- **USDT**(ERC20): `0x10802049762A2761B2473E6c4b00f807eedC876E`

- **BTC**(ERC20): `0x10802049762A2761B2473E6c4b00f807eedC876E`

- **DOGE**(dogecoin): `DBKMT687qwHPERyvtkw1bocEetBKqfrRkd`

Donations will be used to sustain/maintain the website.

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