[roadcat]

If they Rev-engineer them too closely though they also build whatever we put in ours in theirs.

Reminds me of a news article I read and cut out back in the early 1980s. There was a big international technology fair in Europe somewhere, and the Soviets were boasting about their own home-grown personal computers. Supposedly all Russian in design and manufacture. So a tech-savvy western reporter sat in front of the Soviet PC and tried it out. With a few keypresses he got into the system and displayed the contents of the ROM chips. All Apple-II machine code, including all the Apple copyrights embedded therein. Soviets slinked back to Moscow. Probably executed their chief computer scientist.

[GeronL]

lol

You would think they would have rewritten that stuff

[Norm Lenhart]

Zen question. What is the sound of one Freeper unshocked? ;)

That sounds exactly like Russian tech at its finest.

[Lazamataz]

... and THAT anecdote reminds me of the CIA operation that duped the Russians into stealing software that destroyed a large segment of the Siberian Oil Pipeline.