4 ms·

I figured that eventually people were going to just start saying "screw it, the US is just too hard" for commerce, travel, and expatriate employment. This is t

I figured that eventually people were going to just start saying "screw it, the US is just too hard" for commerce, travel, and expatriate employment. This is the country where a Russian got arrested for thought crime when he entered the country to give a speech at a conference for a product he produced in his own country according to its laws(1). I'm surprised its taken this long. (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._ElcomSoft_and_Sklyarov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._ElcomSoft_and_...

wslh 14y ago
My experience is the contrary: I have experience with customers from 30 different countries and, in general, dealing with US customers is the best experience in the business sense. I am working with long term contracts on Fortune 100 companies and small size companies too. The main factor is the search for a win/win goal and the focus in value. The Huawei case is much more specific. It is a chinese company selling security products. A bad match for US. I sell security related products to the main security vendors in US without any issue, and top security companies like Core Security sells to US Government Agencies even when they were founded in Argentina (obviously now established in US)
- ankitml 14y ago
  You didnt read the wiki link above before commenting?
  - wslh 14y ago
    Yes. I read it.
  - yebyen 14y ago
    The DMCA is bad. We US'ians have known that since its inception. What would be worse is if companies succeeded at implementing DRM without any help from the government. What's wrong? Stop laughing! Too many things wrong in that sentence?
stefantalpalaru 14y ago
I already think twice about traveling to the US.
mcintyre1994 14y ago
I'm not going to defend that ridiculous case, but it wasn't 'thought crime'. He was arrested for breaking the DMCA, and I like to hope thought crime isn't illegal in America yet. Can I ask why you chose that wording?
ianstallings 14y ago
Yeah, no company can make money in the US..

wslh 14y ago

My experience is the contrary: I have experience with customers from 30 different countries and, in general, dealing with US customers is the best experience in the business sense. I am working with long term contracts on Fortune 100 companies and small size companies too. The main factor is the search for a win/win goal and the focus in value. The Huawei case is much more specific. It is a chinese company selling security products. A bad match for US. I sell security related products to the main security vendors in US without any issue, and top security companies like Core Security sells to US Government Agencies even when they were founded in Argentina (obviously now established in US)

ankitml 14y ago
You didnt read the wiki link above before commenting?
- wslh 14y ago
  Yes. I read it.
- yebyen 14y ago
  The DMCA is bad. We US'ians have known that since its inception. What would be worse is if companies succeeded at implementing DRM without any help from the government. What's wrong? Stop laughing! Too many things wrong in that sentence?

stefantalpalaru 14y ago

I already think twice about traveling to the US.

mcintyre1994 14y ago

I'm not going to defend that ridiculous case, but it wasn't 'thought crime'. He was arrested for breaking the DMCA, and I like to hope thought crime isn't illegal in America yet. Can I ask why you chose that wording?

ianstallings 14y ago

Yeah, no company can make money in the US..