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It is worth remembering that the USA became what it is today by stealing British designs and patents wholesale until it had caught up technologically.
by alasdair_ 7y ago
It is worth remembering that the USA became what it is today by stealing British designs and patents wholesale until it had caught up technologically.
- minikites 7y agohttps://stratechery.com/2015/xiaomis-ambition/ https://stratechery.com/2015/xiaomis-ambition/ >And, I might add, from my perspective it’s not a big moral problem either: the truth is the United States ran just as roughshod over intellectual property during its rise to power as China does today, and I’m more than sympathetic to the developing world’s position that the West is attempting to pull up the ladder behind it: no one was holding Europe or American to task for pollution or intellectual property or workers’ rights the way the West does the rest of the world. That doesn’t make it “right,” it just makes “right” a whole lot more gray than “Xiaomi-are-copycats” complainers are apt to admit.
- 100011 7y agoNot only British, Nazi scientists were welcomed too.