"Intellectual property protection and national security have long been intertwined. For as long as espionage has existed, spies and agents have tried to steal a

"Intellectual property protection and national security have long been intertwined. For as long as espionage has existed, spies and agents have tried to steal and copy foreign technology." What I want to know is: "Which country copied/stole/appropriated (use whatever languaging makes you feel comfortable) the wheel from which other country, first?" <g> "Intellectual Property Theft", you gotta love it... It's amazing, because all of Silicon Valley stands on the shoulders of pioneers; on the shoulders of giants, but not once in those silly interviews of the latest successful founder, who's only a kid, do they ever, ever thank all of the people that made all of the infrastructure that made their present day business able to function... people including, but not limited to: Boole, Tesla, Turing, Shannon, Von Neumann, Atanasoff, and others too numerous to count. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pioneers_in_computer_science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pioneers_in_computer_s... Also, most so-called intellectual property "secrets" -- usually appear in some form or other in academic papers way before they are snapped up and patented by some multinational company, some multinational company who is usually not the original researcher or researchers. Which brings me to another other point... usually the multinational company profits more, way more, orders of magnitude more, than the original inventors/researchers, who might not (in some but not all cases) be compensated at all... So now the next question is, who stole what from whom, when? a) Did some other country, i.e., China (or whoever) steal intellectual property from another "Country" (which are actually corporations/corporate interests in that other country)? or b) Did the corporation that was "stole from" -- steal that intellectual property from the original inventors/researchers? (You know, via legal means, paying someone a pittance and calling it a "fair deal" is still stealing...) or c) Did the original inventors/researchers steal their idea from ideas that were already floating about in the academic community and in previous academic papers, in that field of study? Who stole what from who, when? ? That's what I want to know. And I also want to know which country stole the wheel from which other country, first... <g>