> In China all knowledge is in fact a big open source scheme. This is not strictly true. Witness anyone trying to get a Chinese company to produce GPL source c

> In China all knowledge is in fact a big open source scheme. This is not strictly true. Witness anyone trying to get a Chinese company to produce GPL source code or contribute back. Open source is something to be taken for free and we don't need to worry about silly obligations, moral or otherwise. I think a more accurate statement is "patents and copyrights do not functionally exist in China" so open source is synonymous with "public domain". Some try to protect their work through encryption or DRM, to give them a head start on the clones that will inevitably follow but that's not the same thing at all.