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Why China is giving away its tech for free
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Re: Why China is giving away its tech for free
#12It is about destroying the industry which the West have a stronghold in. Giving it away for free, in the name of Open source also attract a lot of " common interest ", those from Europe who want to break free of US, and those from US who wants US to fail, and companies who simply want another company to fail so they could gain competitive advantage. And China is very happy to help. It has been blatantly obvious for t…
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#13Shouldn't we rather ask why the West is incessantly copyrighting everything? How many rent seekers and leeching lawyers and advertisers our economy and consumers can suffer? What's wrong with us?
Re: Why China is giving away its tech for free
#14Shouldn't we rather ask why the West is incessantly copyrighting everything? How many rent seekers and leeching lawyers and advertisers our economy and consumers can suffer? What's wrong with us?
Copying takes negligible amounts of energy. It is only a matter of time. Copyright is doomed to fail.
Re: Why China is giving away its tech for free
#15It is about destroying the industry which the West have a stronghold in. Giving it away for free, in the name of Open source also attract a lot of " common interest ", those from Europe who want to break free of US, and those from US who wants US to fail, and companies who simply want another company to fail so they could gain competitive advantage. And China is very happy to help. It has been blatantly obvious for t…
Most likely through their phones. They can just track you if they wanted to. Everybody knows it. This sentiment is part of why the USA will lose the propaganda war.
There is no amount of propaganda the USA can make to remedy this reality.
Re: Why China is giving away its tech for free
#16It is about destroying the industry which the West have a stronghold in. Giving it away for free, in the name of Open source also attract a lot of " common interest ", those from Europe who want to break free of US, and those from US who wants US to fail, and companies who simply want another company to fail so they could gain competitive advantage. And China is very happy to help. It has been blatantly obvious for t…
And this is bad for everyone except US gigacorporations how?
Substituting « the US » for « the West » on HN clarifies a lot of things.
I would rather we stop talking about the West, it does not mean much anymore.
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Didn't know there was a queue, how does it work? Readers upload the paywalled article? Does that mean uploaders can alter the version of the article we end up seeing?
I requested that they make a copy of it. It is currently #11 in queue.
Hopefully, they will be able to copy the whole article.
No, I am not able to alter what it archives.
Re: Why China is giving away its tech for free
#18It is about destroying the industry which the West have a stronghold in. Giving it away for free, in the name of Open source also attract a lot of " common interest ", those from Europe who want to break free of US, and those from US who wants US to fail, and companies who simply want another company to fail so they could gain competitive advantage. And China is very happy to help. It has been blatantly obvious for t…
There is no secret sauce or moat , they ve been saying that for years, and it's still true. Being number 2 in the race is a losing position, so china probably thought they might as well give it away
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Copying takes negligible amounts of energy. It is only a matter of time. Copyright is doomed to fail.
But it s not , it has made a resurgence and piracy is way down. (Except if you re big digital tech, you are allowed to use anything any way you want)
The future is open, they're just buying time. Piracy can never end because copyright is fictitious.
See, I could set up a system where I charge you for air by tracking your every breath, but that would be stupid since air is just available. There is a way tho.
Rather, capitalism will most likely look towards changing technology standards and softwares environments to serve their purpose.
Forget about downloading applications and looking at source code, the only way to use mass production computers will be through their neutered means: - Only approved softwares from approved "markets"/"app stores" - Settings? "Nah that's for experts" - Ad blocking? "That's a serious crime" - Different operating system? "You can't change that"
It's not enshittification its capitalism.
Re: Why China is giving away its tech for free
#20Commoditize the compliment at a massive scale? Make everything free and then only the raw natural resources become what makes a country valuable, instead of the output of their knowledge work.
As on copyright vs no copyright, I agree with the view of Bunny Huang. Chinese laxity with copyright doesn't destroy the advantage of the first mover - it just puts a limit to it. Basically if you want to be on top, you need to keep innovating non-stop, you can't rest on your laurels.
Systems relying on copyright allow companies to alienate engineers' work, that's how Oracle ended up with more lawyers than engineers (even if that's just a meme). Systems where knowledge is distributed freely (including the open source community) gives power to engineers.