Considering that China has cloned everything they have allowed into their country, it would seem to be an act of stupidity to not have expected China to have eventually cloned Windows software.
“Considering that China has cloned everything they have allowed into their country, it would seem to be an act of stupidity to not have expected China to have eventually cloned Windows software.”
No, a real act of stupidity would be to let a single line of Windows 11 source into their codebase. Unpredictably slow, buggy, unresponsive UI (Microsoft has admitted to the latter). Bet that it will never be fixed, although I’ll bet that the telemetry is mil-grade.
Nope. HarmonyOS has nothing whatsoever to do with Windows. It was originally based on open-source Linux/Unix code, and now has become completely independent of even that. It's re-written from the kernel up.
The CCP has never respected any intellectual property issue/protection on anything. Anything manufactured there has to turn over links to everything. Forget about suing. Private property does not exist in a communist state.
So, most all of their so-called technological advancement is based upon theft — primarily from the US.