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Re:China: Nvidia Loses Face and a 10 Million PC Order over ... by mtgx on Friday June 22, 2012 @09:15AM (#4146629)
If reverse engineering is a crime, then you can probably say the same thing about the whole Linux community, and how they are "stealing" Microsoft and Apple's innovations.
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Re:China: Nvidia Loses Face and a 10 Million PC Order over ... by mattstreet on Friday June 22, 2012 @09:54AM (#4146746)
Who said it was a crime? Just that a company might not want to give away it's source code because they don't want to make it easier for another company to make knock offs.

This has been a big issue for companies dealing with China, you sell your product their for awhile, until they can reverse it (or even hack your servers for info) and make their own.

In this case, the legality wasn't brought up, just the motivations for one company not sharing with another.

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