[Spridgets] Do you trust Chinese goods?

[de Brebisson, Cyrille (Calculator Division)]

Hello,

I think that it is more a cultural thing.

I talked about that to one of my engineer and he explained to me the
following:

Here in the "west", we have always concidered that "idea" bellonged to their
originators, over there, they do not have that deep cultural association of an
idea whit it's creator, so to them copyright laws do not make sense, property
is property of a "physical asset" and they do not understand the notion of
property of a non physical asset like an idea...

To them, for example, a CD should be worth around 40c because that how much it
cost to make it, that is a proce of a CD regardless of what is on it... They
value the physical support, not the content...

Why would they recognize a law that, one: they do not understand, and two
would make life a whole lot harder for them?

cyrille

-----Original Message-----
From: Guy R Day [mailto:grday at btinternet.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 8:35 AM
To: de Brebisson, Cyrille (Calculator Division); Spridgets at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Do you trust Chinese goods?

An excellent little treatise that only omits their national lack of and
refusal to acknowledge international copyright laws.