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As they did with gunpowder, china-clay, silkworms, tea and even Panda's. I think only Panda's out of that small list have their IP still protected and the rest
by Zenst 7y ago
As they did with gunpowder, china-clay, silkworms, tea and even Panda's.
I think only Panda's out of that small list have their IP still protected and the rest got industrial-theft treatment over the centuries. Though in fairness - they do share Panda's.
- Quarrelsome 7y agoByzantines robbed the silkworms in possibly one of the oldest written records of corporate espionage?
- Zenst 7y agoI believe so, even if wiki disagree's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage#Origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage#Origins
- whitenation1488 7y agoGunpowder was just an accident, some guy mixed charcoal, saltpeter and sulfur. clay, silkworms, tea all come from nature the Chinese are not and have never been a innovative people, they had a large population so they got lucky and discovered a bunch of simple inventions first. The Chinese despite outnumbering whites historically 10 to 1 have never produced a genius equivalent to Tesla, Einstein, Newton, Gauss, Feynman, Von Neumann etc...
- theandrewbailey 7y agoPandas.
- Zenst 7y agoYes, a loose connection but as China does treat them as if they are IP and with as much (if not more so) control - I include them. For example - if a country was to clone Panda's without China's consent, the level of outrage and response would be very comparable had some high-level IP had been stolen. But as an isolated example - I'll agree it is a weak one, but worth including for how it is treated as IP by the country.
- barbecue_sauce 7y agoI think he was just pointing out that it's Pandas, not Panda's.
- Zenst 7y agoMy bad, I've clearly mentally added an exclamation mark in my mind and ran with that.
- westiseast 7y agoThey don't share pandas at all - the pandas are 'rented out' to zoos around the world and subject to intense negotiation and strict contracts. Any baby pandas born on foreign soil still belong to China. So, no, they don't 'share' pandas at all.