I have my name in a couple patents (US) related to virtualization -- and what's funny is I have two apparently matching certificates from China as well - completely written in Chinese. I can only tell what they are for by the cryptic diagram they printed of the ideas. I haven't bothered looking into this as I don't own the patents, but I thought it seemed like a complete oxymoron to have a chinese patent. ;-)
I agree with David -- it's unavoidable ... the paradigm is changing. Perhaps the one built around patents has worn itself out... ? Scott Rohling On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:55 AM, David Boyes <dbo...@sinenomine.net> wrote: > > I'm not sure I like this or not.... > > http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-share-technology-china-strategy- > > 120007774.html > > It's unavoidable -- welcome to the post-NSA spying disclosure world. If > IBM wants to continue to do business in the world's largest market, they > have to do it with Chinese workers. They still have huge skill gaps, but at > least there's a framework to actually get access to that market if there's > a local Chinese component. > > Nothing new to see here. Same deal with Brazil, same deal with Russia, > same deal with India. They don't impose import duties or anything that > would be actionable at an international treaty level, but having to have a > reasonable local involvement percentage looks ok (on paper) ... and you get > free skills transfer because whoever does the work has to be a) local or b) > looking over your shoulder the entire time. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
