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by ada1981 2869 days ago
Does it surprise anyone that China would copy someone else’s IP?
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ada1981 2868 days ago
Downvotes because China has amazing respect for IP, or something else?
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coldtea 2868 days ago
Well, it wasn't in China where the ideas that "software patents are evil" and "copyrighted software is wrong" spurted a whole movement...
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iforgotpassword 2868 days ago
Down votes because "China" is a country of 1.4 billion people and not a single hive minded unit. Also this was clearly a simple scam to rake in investor money, they just told people what they wanted to hear so they'd throw money at them. Has never happened in the west huh?
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ada1981 2868 days ago
Admittedly, I don’t know the details of this particular situation outside of “yet another copyright / IP scam in China”.

Culture is bigger than any individual.

IP & Copyright are not part of Chinese history or culture and were largely impositions from The west within the last 50 years.

Something like 90% of all business software running in China is stolen.

Additionally, Marxist ideas of collective ownership have left their mark.

https://www.cio.com/article/2444480/it-organization/understa...

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