Comments on: China: no source code, no sales

By: business for sale abroad

business for sale abroad — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:09:44 +0000

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By: Paul Ockenden

Paul Ockenden — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:03:50 +0000

I know someone whose company makes big expensive machines. They are sold all around the world, but there are certain countries they they refuse to sell to.

He told me “If we sell a machine to China, they pay OK, but it would be the only machine we’d ever sell there. After that, they’d just make copies”.

But we were like that once. And the US was like that once. I’d imagine China (and others) will start to play ball far faster than most of the West ever did.

By: David Bayon

David Bayon — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:32:50 +0000

There’s a big difference between a company like Lite-On making drives for other companies to put their branding on, and a Chinese firm reverse-engineering or stealing the source code of a product to produce identical, cheaper copies. One is a common legal contract, the other is theft.

By: nicomo

nicomo — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:19:55 +0000

Would this be the most apt moment to use that teen phrase “owned”? I’ve no idea.

but the two words of note in this article are “apparently considering” meaning they haven’t done it yet and that leaves foreign investors a window to take advantage of. One on a tall building may come to mind – but their are always sales abroad that may help them survive, and surely other governments should be applying pressure, forget M$ though.

By: Fed

Fed — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:12:53 +0000

Manufactures have long used identical kit. I can recall a few years ago that Sony’s DVD RW drives were mane by Liteon. The only difference being the firmware and the price. Sony’s were roughly twice the price.