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Re:The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering by andreilys on Thursday February 13, 2020 @04:46PM (#22321746)
” They side-step a lot of the planned obsolescence and intentional feature scarcity US companies have become so dependent on to avoid meaningful R&D. ”

They also “side-step” the capital and years of research required to come up with the products.

Why invest in R&D when you can invest in corporate espionage for a fraction of the cost?

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Re:The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering by mNovak on Thursday February 13, 2020 @05:14PM (#22321960)
Not here to debate whether IP theft happens, but to be clear Huawei does also invest billions into R&D (domestic and abroad)
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Re:The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering by chrischen on Thursday February 13, 2020 @08:54PM (#22323324)
That's a separate issue. If Huawei violated some IP patents then why aren't they suing for that? Any meaningful R&D developments would be patented and would be publicly available and described anyways.

And if your product is so weakly innovative that a picture of the circuity or some power point slides basically give away significant trade secrets, then your product probably sucks.

These charges sound like they're for non-innovation based trade secrets, whatever those may be.

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Re:The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering by karavelov on Thursday February 13, 2020 @06:43PM (#22322520)
If they didn't invest in research, how were they first to market with 5G solutions?
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Re:The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering by richk449 on Thursday February 13, 2020 @09:56PM (#22323614)
They even stole the stuff we haven’t invented yet !!
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