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China to World: We Don’t Need Your Factories Anymore

• smoyer 10y ago
  They've had a pretty meteoric rise in technical capability. It's much easier when you don't honor patents and engage in widespread industrial espionage. Since they also have legions of people to help keep their image acceptable on social media, it will be interesting to see whether my karma drops precipitously. EDIT: I found an interesting related article at about rank 90 on HN immediately after posting this comment - http://qz.com/771727/chinas-factories-in-shenzhen-can-copy-products-at-breakneck-speed-and-its-time-for-the-rest-of-the-world-to-get-over-it/?mod=djemlogistics http://qz.com/771727/chinas-factories-in-shenzhen-can-copy-p...
  • dilemma 10y ago
    Downvoted. Enjoy.
    • smoyer 10y ago
      Thanks for reading my comment - I'll be here all week/month/year. More seriously, I don't shy away from posting comments that I suspect will get down-voted - when we're having a debate, at most half of us can be right at any given time. The lovely thing about a debate is that we can all think we're right. I have a couple of personal anecdotes I could share about China's knock-off business, starting with electronics and mechanical equipment in the early '90s. I've now got a couple of other IP related stories that I am not permitted to share. I'm not going to paint everyone in China with the same brush but I will stand behind my comment as a cultural aspect.
      • aaron695 10y ago
        You'll find you are being downvoted because you are totally off topic. Nothing in the article I saw was relevant to the done to death 'lets try and get karma by putting down China because it copies'
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