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Re:VLC is blacklisting recent Huawei devices to combat negat... by djrogers on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @10:57PM (#17614775)
A company I worked for was acquired by a huawei partner, and within a couple of months Huawei was selling a complete hardware and software copy of our product.

GPs story definitely rings true.

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Re:VLC is blacklisting recent Huawei devices to combat negat... by unmole on Thursday July 26, 2018 @12:27AM (#17615051)
Wait, if the company was acquired by a Huawei proxy, how is that same as whatever GP is insinuating?

Full disclosure: I work for Huawei; I am not paid to shill; I am not Chinese.

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Re:VLC is blacklisting recent Huawei devices to combat negat... by forapurpose on Thursday July 26, 2018 @02:17AM (#17615410)
> I am not Chinese

I'm not criticizing the parent, but it should never need to be said. Nobody here should be judged based on their ethnicity or country.

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Re:VLC is blacklisting recent Huawei devices to combat negat... by Evidlo on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @11:25PM (#17614859)
If the company was acquired by a Huawei partner, doesn't that mean the reproduction was legitimate in this case?
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Re:VLC is blacklisting recent Huawei devices to combat negat... by djrogers on Thursday July 26, 2018 @11:13AM (#17618083)
No, why would it be? It wasn’t produced by the partner, and was never authorized to be copied by anyone. It was straight up copied - source code and all - by Hauwei after their partner got access to our SVN repos.
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Re:VLC is blacklisting recent Huawei devices to combat negat... by random314 on Thursday July 26, 2018 @12:12PM (#17618567)
Why wasn't Huawei sued? I would assume that Huawei acquired the code and design legally if there was no lawsuit.
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Re:VLC is blacklisting recent Huawei devices to combat negat... by __sr__ on Thursday July 26, 2018 @03:20PM (#17620160)
Wait, if Huawei Partner acquired the company, doesn’t it mean they got the rights to its IP? Isn’t that often the sole point of acquision?

Or did I misread something?

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