OpenClaw Founder Doesn't Buy Tencent's "Mirroring" Excuse: Could Have Been Made an Official Mirror, Proper Etiquette is to Ask First

According to 1M AI News's monitoring, in response to scraping accusations with a "local mirror" approach and operational data (180GB of traffic pulling only 1GB from the upstream), OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger posted again: "The key point is not here. We could have aligned and made SkillHub an official fifth mirror, synchronizing download statistics. The polite thing would have been to ask first." He had previously directly mentioned Tencent's Mixed Reality team's official account, questioning, "Can you help support a bit instead of pushing my server costs into five digits."

However, from the results, Tencent's response has already addressed Steinberger's initial core concerns: indicating the source, showing that the actual upstream load is very low, and expressing willingness to sponsor. Mirroring open-source projects in the Chinese developer ecosystem is a common practice (npm, PyPI, Docker Hub, etc., all have numerous Chinese mirrors) and usually does not require prior permission. Steinberger's proposal of "making it an official mirror, synchronizing download statistics" is a better solution, but it seems that the two parties are not far from reaching a cooperation agreement.