Comment Business is Business, they learned from the best. (Score 2, Interesting) 590
The article has several good points but got a little silly calling the Chinese government "secretive". sublim/Echelon/sublim Market confusion, ha, that is competition. Communist, well maybe, but its one of the most capitalistic countries on Earth. The conclusion the article drew, that China would isolate itself, is a laugher. China is a huge chunk of the human population and is self-sufficient in every way. Immagine if every device in China was incompatible with the rest of the world, then only the bigwigs in China would be making all the money and controlling all the content, and therefore the populace. You have to understand that if it meant going back to the stone age, China would do it, just to keep the ruling class in power. The dirty politics of monopolist big communications business is on the same level as in the United States. If you follow the history of Qualcomm you will see that China has basically, ass-raped them. If China didn't have a brutal population control in place, half the world would be Chinese and we all would be outsiders. To the average Chinese, we are but a tiny part of _their_ world.
Other countries/companies create competing standards, too. If Sony doesn't want to pay royalties, they come out with a competing standard, get market share, and cross-license. Don't believe it? Next time you buy your CD+R/-R/+RW/-RW/DVD+R/-R/+RW/-RW/RAM drive you may have have to choose between Blu-Ray or HD-DVD, or now, the Chinese EVD. Remember that only about 45% of US households have a DVD player, even though they cost $39. The MPAA would love to replace this DVD standard with a more secure medium anyway.
Instead of abandoning the patent system, China is using it in a competitive way. My grandpa invented things and patented them just to have US corporations work around his patents as soon as he filed them. If you file a patent, you are screwed, if you don't file, you are screwed. I hope this TD-SCDMA is not a work around for S-CDMA, as S-CDMA was invented by someone I happen know. (I hope they pay him.)
China is its own world; kinda like a whole other planet. A lot of Chinese have never even heard of other races, let alone, seen another person from one. I have lived in China for short periods of time. While there, I felt like a Martian walking down the street, because of the excitement it would cause. When I step out to the curb, people would lock onto me with their eyes, and stare until they crashed their bike or motorcycle, two blocks away. The police would shoo me away, so then I would step into a store and the sales girls would all run away laughing. In this area, they had seen Caucasians on TV, but not in RL. Everywhere I went, they would gasp "Gwy-Lo!". Once, while passing a restaurant at night, one patron stood, pointed and yelled; it was like being Godzilla. After a few weeks, it gets old. But, I digress... Basically, the only control other countries have is to control the flow of Chinese products and hope they don't move into your major industries.
Other countries/companies create competing standards, too. If Sony doesn't want to pay royalties, they come out with a competing standard, get market share, and cross-license. Don't believe it? Next time you buy your CD+R/-R/+RW/-RW/DVD+R/-R/+RW/-RW/RAM drive you may have have to choose between Blu-Ray or HD-DVD, or now, the Chinese EVD. Remember that only about 45% of US households have a DVD player, even though they cost $39. The MPAA would love to replace this DVD standard with a more secure medium anyway.
Instead of abandoning the patent system, China is using it in a competitive way. My grandpa invented things and patented them just to have US corporations work around his patents as soon as he filed them. If you file a patent, you are screwed, if you don't file, you are screwed. I hope this TD-SCDMA is not a work around for S-CDMA, as S-CDMA was invented by someone I happen know. (I hope they pay him.)
China is its own world; kinda like a whole other planet. A lot of Chinese have never even heard of other races, let alone, seen another person from one. I have lived in China for short periods of time. While there, I felt like a Martian walking down the street, because of the excitement it would cause. When I step out to the curb, people would lock onto me with their eyes, and stare until they crashed their bike or motorcycle, two blocks away. The police would shoo me away, so then I would step into a store and the sales girls would all run away laughing. In this area, they had seen Caucasians on TV, but not in RL. Everywhere I went, they would gasp "Gwy-Lo!". Once, while passing a restaurant at night, one patron stood, pointed and yelled; it was like being Godzilla. After a few weeks, it gets old. But, I digress... Basically, the only control other countries have is to control the flow of Chinese products and hope they don't move into your major industries.
