[Spridgets] Do you trust Chinese goods?

[Guy R Day]

Fully agree with you on that as well, but must be very annoying when you set 
up production in China utilising your patented or copyrighted ideas only to 
find that 2 weeks later a 'mirror' factory next door is producing 2nd rate 
copies.  Probably using your labour who are doing a 2nd shift as well.

Thankfully this is not my working area.

Regards

GRD


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "de Brebisson, Cyrille (Calculator Division)" <cyrille at hp.com>
To: "Guy R Day" <grday at btinternet.com>; <Spridgets at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:00 PM
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...

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.