I’m replying to myself to address multiple other replies.
First of all, it’s really sad to see people saying it doesn’t matter the journey of how one achieves success, and all that matters is your current state.
Brushing the CCPs countless acts of IP theft under the rug is like saying it doesn’t matter that the Trump family committed financial fraud for decades. All that matters is that they’ve managed to become billionaires today. Would the Trump family be anywhere near as wealthy if they hadn’t cheated for so long? Would China be much further behind than they are now if the CCP hadn’t stolen so much IP? I see multiple people here implying those questions are irrelevant, which I absolutely disagree with. Ignoring all that history is a huge injustice to everyone else who didn’t resort to that kind of behavior.
I also want to be clear I’m not trying to make some ridiculous claim that Chinese individuals have been working independently to hack and steal IP. It’s their government and that same government is to blame for the many people like me who really look down on them despite what they’ve ultimately been able to achieve. They undoubtedly have huge numbers of brilliant citizens. When I make comments about China’s shameful history of tech IP theft, I’m talking about their government.
Is it really theft when an American company sends over the CAD files to a Chinese manufacturer to make it for them?
I know there's some about of corporate espionage where trade secrets got exfilled, but what makes you so certain the majority of Chinese success is from stolen IP, as if electrical engineering grad students can't figure out how to make solar panels from first principals?
First of all, it’s really sad to see people saying it doesn’t matter the journey of how one achieves success, and all that matters is your current state.
Brushing the CCPs countless acts of IP theft under the rug is like saying it doesn’t matter that the Trump family committed financial fraud for decades. All that matters is that they’ve managed to become billionaires today. Would the Trump family be anywhere near as wealthy if they hadn’t cheated for so long? Would China be much further behind than they are now if the CCP hadn’t stolen so much IP? I see multiple people here implying those questions are irrelevant, which I absolutely disagree with. Ignoring all that history is a huge injustice to everyone else who didn’t resort to that kind of behavior.
I also want to be clear I’m not trying to make some ridiculous claim that Chinese individuals have been working independently to hack and steal IP. It’s their government and that same government is to blame for the many people like me who really look down on them despite what they’ve ultimately been able to achieve. They undoubtedly have huge numbers of brilliant citizens. When I make comments about China’s shameful history of tech IP theft, I’m talking about their government.