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Because I grew up in the Ottawa region and many of my friends parents worked at Nortel. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.1137006 https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.1137006 Some
by mabbo 8y ago
Because I grew up in the Ottawa region and many of my friends parents worked at Nortel.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.1137006 https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.1137006
Someone was hacking into Nortel and stealing R&D, trade secrets, the hard work of the research division. That someone was in China. Soon after, a competitor named Huawei with a minimal R&D budget was selling very similar products at lower prices. It put Nortel out of business. My friends' parent all lost their jobs.
This is why I personally won't buy Huawei products.
- throwawayfart9 8y agoThis probably isn't the only thing that put Nortel out of business, but it saddens me that more Canadians aren't aware of that history. Huawei advertising during Hockey Night in Canada just makes my blood boil. It's nation-state-level trolling.
- lovescalajs 8y agoIt's by design. China unveiled their f35 clone when a senior us official was visiting. But sure lets hope trump fails in his trade wars against china because he says bad words.
- Dylan16807 8y agoYou don't fix industrial espionage with a trade war.
- lovescalajs 8y agoTypical toxic coworker. Plays down others ideas, doesn't offer his own. Welcome to hn, you'll fit right in.
- random314 8y agoThe connection to Huawei seems very tenuous. Is there any evidence of Huawei hacking Nortel? The link you shared is just an allegation of Chinese hacking.
- 1996 8y agoIt's just a Chinese company, and all the Chinese companies seems to be put in the same basket by canadians.
- lovich 8y agoChina is objectively not playing by the same rules as the west currently. Chinese Nationals have been caught stealing tech multiple times. I worked at a company where an intern from china was caught trying to steal the entire database but failed only because our infrastructure was so shitty that it crashed when trying to export everything. It was just quietly swept under the rug because any sort of retaliation would have led to losing access to the Chinese market since the intern was a relative of some government official. These sort of behaviors make people angry. Not to say that no one else has acted like this. The United States stole/forced the UK and other European powers to give over IP back when we were the rising star in the global market
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- Hasknewbie 8y agoHuawei have a rep for being IP thieves. They once were sued by Cisco for having software so "accidentally" similar, it had the same bugs... https://www.cnet.com/news/huawei-admits-to-a-little-copying/ https://www.cnet.com/news/huawei-admits-to-a-little-copying/
- djrogers 8y agoA company I worked for was acquired by a huawei partner, and within a couple of months Huawei was selling a complete hardware and software copy of our product. GPs story definitely rings true.
- Evidlo 8y agoIf the company was acquired by a Huawei partner, doesn't that mean the reproduction was legitimate in this case?