Chip design chap arrested for using photocopier An engineer from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has been arrested trying to leave the country for a new job in China. Local reports say the engineer (the only name given is his surname, Hsu), has been charged with theft of trade secrets filed by the Hsinchu district prosecutor. He was on the way to work for …
The culture in the PRC is to steal all you can, phuck over your customers as much as you can get away with ...
you mean as opposed to the gentle, caring practuces of large corporations everywhere else?
where do you think they picked up that capitalism thingy?
where do you think they picked up that capitalism thingy?
You clearly have a misunderstanding of capitalism. Please feel free how any of the alternatives better since at least with capitalism is that you have to work to steal the information as opposed to forcing it from your competitor at the point of a gun.
Oh, your advantage is supposed to be given over freely. That makes it all better.?!
Yup, I've got a counterfeit OBD-II dongle that reports an ELM-327 chip rev that ELM never made.
No CE, FCC or any other government type acceptance. Crashes frequently. Doesn't accept several standard documented commands.
I got an email begging me to post a review on Amazon, so I said the above, and now they're in an absolute panic for me to send it back so they can refund me and delete the review saying "counterfeit"
None of my other points are even addressed, that's the one they keep saying "so solly!" about.
Edit: counterfeit serial-USB chips are so bad and so prevalent, that FTDI once altered their Windows driver to brick such devices. Big Slashdot-style kerfuffle.
"and absolutely no respect for the IP rights of other."
It's not so long ago, in the days of the "Iron Curtain", that the communist countries pretty much only traded with each other and, under communist doctrine, there was no real concept of IP. It's hard enough getting the ex-communist countries onto the IP bandwagon, so you can only imagine what it must be like in an actual communist country having to make such a seismic shift to be able to trade with the rest of the world.
And then, of course, they see what IP actually means to the non-communist countries, the stealing, unlicensed use, espionage, lack of morals and ethics, and is it any wonder that countries whose doctrine says theirs no such thing as IP treat it as a fig-leaf, barely paying lip service to it.
Is there a week goes by without El Reg reporting on yet another court case over IP licensing? And that's just the IT industry. Multiply that by all the other industries around the world and is it any wonder China sees IP licensing as a game with variable rules where cheating is allowed for as long as you can get away with it.
.... I was once on an interviewing panel for a mid-sized Chinese tech company (they wanted a native English speaker to verify the applicants actually could speak intelligible English). Several of the interviewees were from competing companies and each was asked if they had any inside information they could bring with them.
Plot-twist: the one who said "Sorry, No" got in the take-serously tray and the ones who claimed they could were binned. This company was smart enough to realise that if a prospective employee would do it to their previous employer on the way in, they would later do the same to them on the way out.
I find it a bit surprising all the others weren't smart enough to realise the company would be smart enough to realise this and hold it against them. "Lack of loyalty is a problem only if you're stupid enough to advertise it" is not exactly a new concept after all...
You joke, but that's what John Walker did when he was selling US Navy secrets to the Soviets from the '60s to the '80s.
He was using the copier a lot, and someone asked what he was doing. He actually said "selling secrets to the Russians", the other guy laughed and walked off.
So that's another reason I don't joke about bombs around TSA & FBI folks, as if I needed one...
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