Wednesday, February 20, 2008

industrial espionage and theft: another way china is getting ahead

feb 19th, 2008

this is interesting for two reasons.

1. the chinese are completely unethical about intellectual property theft, which implies they have a serious weakness in the *creation* of intellectual property

2. the chinese are highly patriotic about their nation and will do anything for china (and especially for good money which the chinese government is willing to give them)

3. the chinese are organized (see the Committee of 100) to help themselves and their fatherland. in contrast, if such a Committee were to be formed for indian-americans, there would have to be 15 seats reserved for mohammedans, 5 for christists, 10 for bombay people, 5 for calcutta people, etc. regardless of their actual contribution. forget caste-based reservation, the much worse sin is religion-based and region-based reservation, for which there is no justification whatsoever, while there is *some* justification for caste-based reservation.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/latestheadlines/ci_8302329

3 comments:

ramesh said...

this shuld warm ur heart. pilgrim subsidies are not enough. samuel reddy now wants to subsidize minority marraiges also.

read: Andhra goes all out to woo minorities
http://in.news.yahoo.com/indiabroadcast/20080220/r_t_ibn_nl_general/tnl-andhra-goes-all-out-to-woo-minoritie-3a4f8c1.html

habc said...

OT - info for bloggers

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AGworld said...

Rajeev

You mentioned 2 reasons, but gave 3 :-))

China's distaste for IP is totally understandable.
Have you seen any innovation coming out of China?
India, despite its raggedy status (at least in the eyes of the west) is highly innovative -- it makes its own cars(nano and the bajaj micro or something, its own bikes and what not).

MAny indian cos are revving up R&D.

The only innovations china makes are in innovative methods to thieve other people's IP (the "Gulsar" clone of the Bajaj Pulsar comes to mind).

Perhaps the one place where they're truly innovative is in nuclear proliferation.