Posted on 04/24/2009 1:02:59 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
China to put squeeze on foreign firms / IT companies must reveal product secrets
The Yomiuri Shimbun
The Chinese government has decided to launch a system next month to force foreign manufacturers of digital household appliances and other items equipped with computing devices to disclose key information, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Thursday.
The move is aimed at controlling the makers' products when their goods are made or sold in China.
Beijing likely has informed Tokyo and Washington that detailed provisions to enforce the system will be announced by the end of this month. The Chinese government likely will give manufacturers a grace period before implementing the system, but the new rules will be enforced after this period ends.
After the plan to introduce the system was reported, Japan, European countries and the United States urged the Chinese government to abandon the idea because it would make it easier for foreign companies' intellectual property to be passed on to Chinese competitors. Critics say Beijing's decision to launch the system despite opposition from other countries likely will cause an international problem.
The system will require foreign companies to disclose the source code for their products in a bid to rein in their information technology products made or sold in China.
Under the planned system, a Chinese government official would visit companies in Japan to check products.
If a company refuses to have its products inspected, those products will not be allowed to be manufactured or sold in China. No developed nation has this kind of system.
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Ping!
Ping!
“The move is aimed at controlling the makers’ products when their goods are made or sold in China”
or primarily copying them.
Now, IBM, Intel, MicroSoft, GM and others will learn what it's like dealing with a regime that still in the 21st century has a "Propaganda Department of the Central Committee."
They laid down with dogs and now they're gonna get quite a few fleas
Serves em right
hey, obama will cave in less than three days......
Then don’t manufacture or sell products in China that they demand this information on.
The move is aimed at controlling the makers' products when their goods are made or sold in China.
LOL A big lie
ChiComs will take this informations and give it to "favorite capitalists" who will make these items themselves under 100% Chinese ownership
Foreigners take a hike and go home you are no longer needed
We and our children will rue the very foolish decision to make the PRC powerful.
The concept of "intellectual property" is probably not going to survive into the next century.
On the bright side, Chinese regime may fold, first.
I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords.
Actually, I think our government should be doing something similar, especially for any digital device connected to the internet. What lies within the firmware of products from China? I wonder.
Chicomms can byte me!
And so the nationalization of companies foolish enough to trust a Communist nation as their business partner begins. How da Demacoms and Wepublicants gonna explain this? Communist leaders know when to go in for the kill so to speak. They see the corporate part of the U.S. as now being weak and dependent on them for their corporate survival. Sad to say it is true they are. BLIND FOOLS!
Attack of Clones!
Suckers.
Look, even the people at MicroSoft can’t decipher their own source code. THis may work out.....
Why doesn't MS go open source anyway if that's the case?
I think they are embarrassed to do so. When people find out we have been paying for untested spaghetti code all these years it will hit the fan.
China is trying to duplicate Vista.
They like Bill Gates and have decided to emulate the Microsoft model.
They have 1 billion programmers randomly striking keys, and are compiling this into an operating system.
It will be marketed soon, with upgrades to fix the bugs.
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