But is there any evidence? The usefulness of Nortel's network tech is generally limited by the hardware platforms it was designed for, you really aren't going to run their PowerPC binaries for their PBXes and cellular gear on any other platform, and IBM isn't going to sell you the CPUs for making knockoffs in quantity.
Reimplementing what Nortel had is non-trivial, but look at where Freeswitch and Asterisk are today. The closed competitors are limping along, with most repackaging the two main open source solutions.
Where I got downvoted to oblivion and then flagged.
This worries me as much as this article, because it make people associate China and Chinese companies with unfriendly behaviours.
If you say "not all", you are called a government shill. The same goes with articles trying to point out discrimination in US university admissions.
This is not posted to create dissent, but to reduce exclusion or invalidation that other reader may feel.
Maybe I should say differently: if you replace "asian" by "jewish" or "black" and the phrase sounds horribly racist, maybe that is because it is racist in the first place. Please do not do that.
Reimplementing what Nortel had is non-trivial, but look at where Freeswitch and Asterisk are today. The closed competitors are limping along, with most repackaging the two main open source solutions.