[Spridgets] Do you trust Chinese goods?

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Cultural?

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jay fishbein
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-----Original Message-----
>From: "de Brebisson, Cyrille (Calculator Division)" <cyrille at hp.com>
>Sent: Aug 16, 2007 11:00 AM
>To: Guy R Day <grday at btinternet.com>, "Spridgets at autox.team.net" <Spridgets at autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Do you trust Chinese goods?
>
>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...