Comment by Sammi

It's a strategy so old it has a name: Commoditize your complement / competition

Also even a Joel Spolsky article (did he come up with the term?): https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

The Chinese want to kill a possible US monopoly in the crib. Yay for open source the old bane of monopolies.