Chinese Programmer Fined Three Years’ Salary($150K) for Using GitHub

I know this title looks clickbait, but unfortunately, it’s a real story.

Maliming is a contributor of ABP framework, and works remotely for Volosoft.

• Maliming is Chinese, and he lives in Chengde City, China.
• ABP is a famous ASP.NET framework, which has 11.2k stars in GitHub.
• ABP was maintained by Volosoft, a Türkiye software company engaged in remote work.
• Maliming is an employee of Volosoft and a top 2 contributor of ABP.

This is the GitHub profile of Maliming:

maliming - Overview

From his commit history, we can easily see he is a hardworking programmer. And he earns around $150k in three years, which is a good number for a small Chinese city.

Till now, it’s a sweet story:

• A Chinese coder gets a high salary.