> o/s is where you share your designs freely, not just rip others off. It's effectively the same thing. It's just connotations. In fact China has a lot of bad

> o/s is where you share your designs freely, not just rip others off. It's effectively the same thing. It's just connotations. In fact China has a lot of bad connotations associated with everything they do so it's hard to talk about the country in an unbiased way. There's so much pride and patriotism that gets introduced into the equation especially given the fact that it's on track to overtake the US in terms of economic size. On the other hand, open source has too much good connotations associated with the term. If the core philosophy was exploited to the maximum extent you essentially get China.. where the incentive to innovate is much less than the incentive to copy someone else's innovation. >China copies everything and everyone else, but then still tries to keep it's own secrets. Doesn't everybody do this? The US full of closed source and open source code/products? The thing with China is that stopping illegal copying is unlikely to be enforced so the only defense against intellectual property in China is secrecy. In the US both secrecy and law are used for protection and many companies and people exploit both of these tools.