Re:News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Commu...
by leoc on Monday November 02, 2020 @09:52AM
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To be fair, it seems that was a large component of how everyone caught up with the UK. And of course Europe had a long history of trying to get technologies out of places like China.
Re:News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Commu...
by carlmr on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:21PM
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>The now well-regarded "Made in Germany" was mandated by the UK to warn British customers about cheap copycat products from Germany (which later backfired because those products were both cheap and high-quality) [2]
I mean in a sense we're approaching that stage with China now. Huawei, xiaomi etc. Make great quality phones, laptops, vacuum cleaners, etc.
Made in China as a cheap copycat is already over, although it still exists in parallel.
- there's a theory that Germany caught up to Britain by ignoring international (well, British) copyright law in the 19th century and flooded the domestic market with cheap "illegal" copies of British (and from everywhere else) books and scientific papers, which greatly helped to develop German industry and science in the following decades [1]
- The now well-regarded "Made in Germany" was mandated by the UK to warn British customers about cheap copycat products from Germany (which later backfired because those products were both cheap and high-quality) [2]
[1] https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/no-copyright-...
[2] https://www.dw.com/en/125-years-of-made-in-germany/a-1618858...