POS on the net

[droxy]

If you bought a book from barnes and nobel, check this out:

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LOL- some of my industry drama. 
Huawei has been ripping off designs and intellectual property as far back as 1995,

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[droxy]

They've been that way since the 90s.

I think the market does self regulate to a degree. But it's another thing when it's blatant and celebrated theft.

Yes multi-national corp's were slaughtered by Huwei, but that is now eons ago in internet time as well. Too little to late, and to late to matter to the victims.

What will happen is the Indians will start ripping off the Chinese and vice versa in the grand zero sum game that is global trade. They wont give a crap.

However, the fact of life for humans and their engagement, is capital will flow where it is efficiently used. Human greed, no matter how much one may find it appalling, is a fact, and you cant force people not to be greedy. You can ditto that for power and influence as well.

I think people who are into fairness need go to China and look at the Dickensian lifestyle the majority live and see that is what we compete against cost wise, which is the zero sum game race to the bottom....repeat-repeat-repeat. Then they can develop solutions that the Chinese will implement-LOL (wont happen, there is no incentive for the counterfiters to change or support international IP laws-they dont care).

We had a saying when I worked for the Japanese. When they say no, they mean no, and when they say maybe, they mean no.

I suppose if I could solve these big problems I'd have a nobel prize in economics. But you and I or the world cant get the counterfiters to pay their workers more to get to that level playing field, let alone comply to IP law.

Nice to see someone telling you the truth on the first unit sale. I remeber a guy I met in India, he used to work for the most advanced textile equipment manufacturer in the world, they took the mfg of that machine to China, and in one year they were out of business and then the fall of all the US factories after that. Gotta love the Chinese. Part of me also beleives, if you take your business there, expect to lose it, and these idiot businesses got exactly that.

Yes, it's not always the Chinese to be fair, but given demographics, they have the most people doing it and reaping the most benefit from it. India comes in second.

[droxy]

Hee- you would make a great cocktail party guest! Yes, pretty gardens. Mine is overrun with weeds, vines, and suckers. I dont want to go out and do it. But it desperately needs doing.

I used to love yard work.