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Re:The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering by jvanderbot on Thursday February 13, 2020 @10:32PM (#22323763)
The allegation is not copying, the allegation is fraudulent agreements with US companies, and dishonest corporate espionage.

Can anyone really develop new technology, bring it to market, have it immediately brought by a competitor with zero R&D investment, and expect to compete? Is there something that is supposed to be magical about US technology that this scenario does not apply?

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Re:The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering by chrischen on Friday February 14, 2020 @12:08PM (#22328176)
The articles cites some of the examples as "taking a photo of a disassembled circuit board" and "copying source code."

While I agree copying source code is bad, but doing so and maintaining someone else's code is a monumental task.

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Re:The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering by jvanderbot on Friday February 14, 2020 @01:37PM (#22328952)
I think design, prototyping, commercialization, and iterations are a bigger task than maintaining an active product line. It's not 100% of the work when you can simply copy someone's work, but it might be 80%
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