China: All Your Source Code Are Belong to Us
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Apr 28, 2009 02:14 JST
- Tags: Business, China, Copyright, Law, Made in China, Politics, Software, USA
China has set in motion plans to force all foreign companies operating in China to share their source code with Chinese companies.
The governments of the US, Japan and Europe are objecting ferociously to what in China is likely to amount to state mandated piracy of their software secrets.
The system will mandate that companies producing electronics in China must disclose the source code to any firmware or other pertinent software to the Chinese “partner.”
Provisions are even included for Chinese staff to visit and check up on the manufacturers in the US, Japan or elsewhere, to ensure they have disclosed it all.
Companies who refuse to surrender their intellectual property in this way will be barred from exporting their goods from China.
One of China’s excuses for this is that it wants to ensure proper security for the code used in ATMs and smart cards, so as a result the details of their encryption systems will have to be shared with the highly reliable Chinese manufacturers, ensuring the Chinese can work on improving security for the world’s banking systems.
The law has been in the works for some time now, but now China has announced it will be brought into effect in May. A “grace period” will operate for a time, to give companies the chance to prepare to hand everything over.
Western countries are indignant at the law, but have yet to act decisively in response.
An important strategy used by producers outsourcing to China has been to ensure that technologically sophisticated elements of the production process are kept out of the hands of Chinese factory managers, to the extent of restricting such production steps to more reliable nations, or of using non-Chinese engineers and managers in the sensitive areas.
This measure seems designed specifically to foil any such efforts to prevent sensitive intellectual property being appropriated wholesale by less than scrupulous Chinese operators.
Via Yomiuri.
To put this in context, for a long time now China has operated a system where, in order to receive permission to do business in China, foreign companies have had to partner with a domestic company.
Naturally, there is the expectation that the Chinese company will eventually supplant the foreign devil company through a not necessarily voluntary or legal process of “technological transfer.”
Of course, Japan in the past operated similar highly untoward systems through its infamous “METI” ministry, and emerged the better for it (probably at huge expense to international companies). The issue appears to be rather when China will realise the wealthier it becomes, the less tolerable these practices are internationally.
We must also wonder what the many foreign companies piling into China for the dubious privilege of training a low-cost competitor who will receive all their IP are thinking…
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So, are the western governments going to pressure the Chinese to fuck off, or are they going to fold?
first of all, governments aren't going to do shit. Companies on the other hand are going to resist for maybe 3 months, then some idiot company like Sony is going to be like "1.3 billion people just for me? hellz yeah" and we're all fucked.
If anyone caves to this fucking bullshit, they're pussies.
The worst part is that you know they're ALL going to cave to this...
stupid, every government is doing the same thing
communists is trying to take over the world... Again.
sooooo.. true
and this time its coming from EU, US and China..
I guess I'll have to move to Japan..or Mexico.. or moon....
Good luck in mexico, hope you don't get killed by the swine flue.
Go on, just move out of China, let their economy collapse back into some third world shit. I knew that China wasn't THE NEXT BIG THING, more like THE NEXT BIG TRAP.
True, true, don't come to Mexico. You are probably too weak to even eat our food without getting killed. If you don't know about it, common flu kills more people every year than h1n1 has.
nice comment dude :D
Just move operations to India.
so true. also taiwan and south korea.
at least (for the moment), india only wants to boost their economy and not take over the world.
anyway, i guess this will mean more expensive goods but also better product quality, generally speaking.
Yep - Move operations to Taiwan - an educated and HONEST workforce. Then let's all make sure Taiwan becomes nuclear armed to keep that big predator next door from the temptation of invading that small but delightful COUNTRY of Taiwan.
your statement is funny on so many levels
Lol @ US and communism
And here we have another blind soul who just won't see it.
in the end some ones gonna get nuked im still wondering WTF is china trying to do
Seriously, why doesn't anyone take me seriously when I say the chinese have to right to live?
Apple, and Microsoft, pull and teamwork move and get your ass outta china. Why do people still not get "Made in America" is "made with quality."
Unlike china's "date-rape" superman...
i am chinese and i agree with you,
banned2, they think they are good country make me sick, the country that i live right now also the wrost = indonesia
:(, i want go to japan or at least singapore
Same here though i consider myself hongkongnese than chinese XD but yeah China is only creating a path for its own self destruction.
Kaboomm!!!
why singapore?
Man, yes, Indonesia is quite bad, but at least they don't have "weird news" and many crazy things like China ;p
Of course they do. Headhunters, religious atrocities, etc, all happen in Indonesia.
Haha, they do.
Wait, headhunters? I thought we killed them off already!
Go to Japan. Never Singapore.
*lives in Singapore all his life and hates it*
It's a society that pressures you to be elite.
And if you're not elite you're rubbish.
I'm migrating to Japan after my National Service (which is one of the stupidest things Singapore ever came up with. Sure, train a spartan army of people while we could easily get destroyed by half an atomic bomb)
I have to say:you fucking nuts
made in America is made with quality?
fuck you,that's bullshit
if chinese worker would get salary of the average in America,they would do better than you fucking racists
how much did your fucking microsoft daddy pay chinese worker who assemble xbox360,do you know?
Less than 200 dollar.Do you have any concept with that number?
In Guang Dong,200 dollar will not cover the rent for a 20 square meter room for a month
I say:fuck you ,and you go fuck your mother 'cause she is a whore who give birth to bastard like you.
america only makes big things like planes bombers and crap basically we sponsor war and apparently war is a big thing
Holy jesus. Of course, it all makes sense now! Chinese assembly line workers are retarded as is evident by their expecting $200 to pay a month's rent on single room OVER FOUR THOUSAND SQUARE FEET. To put that in perspective, that's approaching the size of a school gymnasium. Good fucking god man.
Hilarious errors aside, you have to do good work to get paid well. There's the addage of "you get what you pay for" but with people it's more often you pay for what you get. First aforementioned Chinese rather have to prove their worth the money (Read; raise themselves to European or American/Canadian standards). By which point they will cost roughly the same as manufacturing in those nations anyway.. Thus those Chinese workers only have jobs at all because they're cheap labour. If they were going to get paid as much as American labour would for the same job, it wouldn't be made in China. Hurr.
How the fuck is an economy of a country that is wholly dependent on exporting goods via free market economic policies, Communist?
Take you head out of your ass China haven't been proper Communists for decades...
+1
And more precisely, proper Socialism.
Better than the Muslim taking over, either way we are fucked.
China STRIKES AGAIN!!
Lol!
Well to be honest, I think i Hate china now
Banned youtube
Tries to destroy Japanese Anime
Pirates train
Drags poor Doggie on the street for food
.....
I wonder what is next?
LOLIS, they're going to steal our lolis!.. We won't give 'em without a fierce battle, right guys?!
The time has come, prepare your Gundams... In lolis we trust! 0/ 0/ 0/
my lolis ARE plitoting my gundams, buahaha
My Gundams are piloting my lolis
Gundams? Lolis? Char Aznable would be proud.
You're doing it wrong.
/0
my gundams are lolis!
My loli are plioted by gundams and are sent off from a big pedobear mother ship.
All your lolis are belong to my little brotha. :@
Hell, who even needs Gundams anymore. Just strap their legs onto two boosters and the like, without panties, and send them off. Much more energy and moe efficient.
Right...
China is just.... sick (?)
Ima riding on my lolis in my gundam cockpit. XD
Seriously... What China is doing is no different from stripping anyone on their streets saying: "Lemme see the fabric makeup of your undies, or I'll anal probe you..."
Goodness...what's China thinking?
Hell, who even needs Gundams anymore. Just strap their legs onto two boosters and the like, without panties, and send them off. Much more energy and moe efficient.
Seconded.
mo(r)e efficient!
They'll deliberately do something to irk your hatred for something nobody gives a shit about.
Don't forget their crimes against WoW: gold farming, censorship,...
This was an act of the government, as was the banning of Youtube. The pirating of the train was the doing of a company, while the "destroy Anime" and "dog dragged on the street" incidents only occurred because people are retarded and sick fucks, respectively.
Yes, the Chinese government blows pretty hard, but not everything that happens in China can be blamed on it occurring in China. Many horrible things reported here that happened in China can just as well happen anywhere else in the world.
Is it a legitimate reason to hate Japan for being unnecessarily "overprotective" of children, or Russia for housing an individual that killed a couple for insulting his dog? Of course not.
It's perfectly understandable to despise China for its government, you can't hate it just because it has a small number of sick and stupid people.
no, they cant be blamed, but they tollerate all that shit and turn a blind eye because its helping the economy
chinese ppl call themselves smart for being able to make duplicate fake shitty iphones which dont even work properly, ppl buy it cause its cheap, thinking its as good as the real just cause theyve seen wat it looks like in pictures but never even touched it
but ya, your point exactly, the gov needs sum fixing, but i wont hate it because of minorities who set bad examples cause theres minorities anywhere in the world, americas child rapist pedophile escaped to taiwan, ws arrested, but just because he commited a crime, dosent mean all americans are potential loli strikers in 3d
Have you heard about the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989? Thousands were crushed under vehicles and tanks. Some were secretly executed later.
I think Chinese ppl can tolerate all that shit because they don't have other choices.
Holy shit? How the hell do you exaggerate one guy to "thousands crushed under tanks" now that's fucking ignorance. Read a damn book.
you should get your facts straight too
that one guy didn't get crushed by the tank, he was later arrested and executed.
- you are talking about this guy right ? : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-nXT8lSnPQ -
much better.
Please insert "Star Wars Empire Strikes Back Theme".