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I would be happy to see us follow suit up here in Canada, but given that JT is at least part-owned by the PRC, I doubt it'll happen. I miss the good old days wh
by coldacid 9y ago
I would be happy to see us follow suit up here in Canada, but given that JT is at least part-owned by the PRC, I doubt it'll happen. I miss the good old days when we had our own telecoms equipment manufacturer. Northern Telecom, for all its faults, put out good stuff.
- mabbo 9y ago> Northern Telecom, for all its faults, put out good stuff Yeah and then suddenly a Chinese company called Huawei started releasing very similar products with a fraction of the R&D budget. I wonder how they pulled that off. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/former-nortel-exec-warns-against-working-with-huawei-1.1137006 http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/former-nortel-exec-warns-aga...
- gaius 9y agoModern Western culture says buy the cheapest now and don’t bother to think about the long term consequences. Including chucking into a landfill and buying a new one a year later. On every level, be hollowing out our economies, pollution, loss of national autonomy, Western citizens have dug their - our - own graves.