[Philo1962]

I saw no evidence of it when we went to China for Nortel. They confiscated our RF test gear and we sat in a hotel room for almost three weeks waiting to get it back. They could have just as easily bought it on the open market and copied it. It was commonly available test gear, nothing secret. When we did get it back it was obvious it had been disassembled, inspected and reassembled, only nothing worked.

They do everything on the cheap. Look at it from their perspective. Why should they have to go out and buy it when these Nortel guys just delivered it to them free of charge?

[Thermalseeker]

Look at it from their perspective.

I am and it's the up close and personal kind of perspective. I know the Chi-coms are copycats. I've seen it first hand, but you don't have to go to China to see that. I also know that they deserve every bit of the reputation they have for not honoring patents and intellectual property rights. This notion that they are suddenly worried about their reputation in this area is just more Chi-com propaganda, sorta like how they claim their knock off Humvee beats the original article in 12 out of 15 "tests".

Why should they have to go out and buy it when these Nortel guys just delivered it to them free of charge?

Professional ethics? Honoring the rule of international law? Honesty? Integrity?