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The practice of some Chinese companies with IP has been compared to the loose attitude towards patents and copyright in the early USA. I wonder if there's anoth
by stcredzero 10y ago
The practice of some Chinese companies with IP has been compared to the loose attitude towards patents and copyright in the early USA. I wonder if there's another analogy with the Silicon Valley ethos and the Enlightenment that inspired the American revolution? When I first got to the Bay Area four years ago, I met a young Chinese woman who told me that there was an embedded nation within China of about 200 million educated people who aspired to the same kind of semi-utopian worldview that seems to float around Mountain View. She told me that in some ways, they feel they are more like people here than some of their countrymen.
EDIT: s/worldview/world/
- fullshark 10y agoDo you mean area surrounding Mountain view is a semi-utopian society or the people surrounding Mountain View have similar ideas? Cause if area surrounding Mt View is a semi-Utopia...
- stcredzero 10y agoWhoops. I typed "world" when I mean to type "worldview." I would agree that the world around Mountain View isn't utopian!
- ScottBurson 10y agoUm... you mean 's/world/worldview/'
- stcredzero 10y agoCripes. I shouldn't have binge-watched "House of Cards" and "Westworld" last night.
- cylinder 10y agoThe perils of life in utopia!
- CN7R 10y agoI would recommend watching this video as a primer on the type of tech culture developing there: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY