china buying software

[Michael Haney]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Douglas Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>        It seems like that if I had a bundle of money and wanted to make
> I-Pads I could go to China and set up a company to do that.  I could own 49%
> and China would own 51% we would make I-pads and ship them all over the
> world and nobody could do anything about it.   If I owned 51% I might be
> breaking American law and might be prosecuted.  Maybe!  Seems to me the
> whole thing is a matter of Anarchy in industry in spite of the law..
>        Anarchy is what industry operates on, if it is to be successful.
>  Industries that are given a monopoly will at some point fail.  I believe
> that 150 years of monopaly in any field of endevor will cause the fail of
> that industry.  Even Linux might collapse in that time. The difference is we
> all will have had the chance to use and improve it..    So maybe it won't.
>        Not that it makes any difference what I think but a lifetime monopoly
> on and Idea seems too long to me anyway.  A country gives a monopoly on an
> idea for longer than a lifetime and that only stifles industry where a
> patent is for 20 years and encourages it.   There is a good profit to be
> made and then everyone can make use of the idea. That serves the good of the
> country and maybe the world.
>

The US could try to block sales of devices on the grounds of IP law
violations, but China holds a lot of leverage over this country.
They're bought a shit-load of this nation's debt.  Its their Trump
Card, so to speak.  I can easily see them put it into play if the US
starts giving them too much trouble over IP.

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