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In my experience this type of thing is unfortunately very common in China. One of my earliest commercial software applications (for Palm OS) was decompiled and
by apinstein 17y ago
In my experience this type of thing is unfortunately very common in China.
One of my earliest commercial software applications (for Palm OS) was decompiled and re-packaged as a competitor to our product by a Chinese company. When you looked at the binary of their product, it had most of our function names in it. Also, it had most of our bugs. These were weird bugs that no one implementing it on their own would've ever replicated.
We contact the company and they said that they honored our work and loved our product and didn't copy it and "yada yada happy-go-lucky" which was total BS.
Sadly since they were in China and our only real option (according to lawyers) was to sue the company in the US that sold it, which unfortunately was an online software retailer that was 30%+ of our revenues. Scratch that.
Thus we just had to deal with it.
I am not sure if it's cultural or what, but I largely avoid China as much as possible now.
Fool me once, shame on me. Don't get fooled again.