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You're misquoting him.. > The foundation’s move from Delaware to Switzerland may foreshadow further technology flight because of U.S. restrictions on dealing w
by mikeyouse 7y ago
You're misquoting him..
> The foundation’s move from Delaware to Switzerland may foreshadow further technology flight because of U.S. restrictions on dealing with some Chinese technology companies, said William Reinsch, who was undersecretary of commerce for export administration in the Clinton administration.
> “There is a message for the government. The message is, if you clamp down on things too tightly this is what is going to happen. In a global supply chain world, companies have choices, and one choice is to go overseas,” he said.
What's controversial about that? If Chinese companies want to contribute to Open Standards and US laws put all of the IP at risk, of course they're going to move to a better jurisdiction to serve their purposes.
- 6510 7y agoI was thinking the same thing but then it struck me they might be US companies who are much more intimately familiar with government doctoring. It might even be Berkley?
- stjohnswarts 7y agoThis is a case where I would trust them because it -is- open source. However I support US efforts to keep Huawei out of core communications structures, at least in the USA, and hopefully Europeans will follow with US or Continental suppliers. Microchips make it very, vey easy to bury backdoors for Chinese intelligence agencies as well as put in encryption weaknesses. Say what you want about the US but there are pathways to prevent you from being railroaded by the government if you're willing to stand up to them. This isn't so in China, where you just get disappeared or imprisoned if you don't tow the party line.