Hong Kong children learn to code after school

Re:Hong Kong children learn to code after school by honest_joe on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @03:22AM (#9609841)

China (including special areas Macau, Hong Kong) should learn to respect an intellectual property. In countries where there is 98% piracy it's impossible to start a purely software company.

So why are they learning to code ? To be a peasant for banks, insurance companies, gov or cheap workforce for the west ( but yes this is hong kong and i know they are quire "rich").

I am from a post-soviet/socialist country and took me some time to understand that paying for a software that you use everyday is worth it. But it's still too uncommon in my country and many others.

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Re:Hong Kong children learn to code after school by moonchrome on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @04:18AM (#9610023)

>In countries where there is 98% piracy it's impossible to start a purely software company

Most modern tech companies are trying to create/sell services, even Microsoft is going to the cloud and just letting the client piracy "slide" because it's a losing battle (AFAIK they said they will upgrade pirated versions of Win 8 -> Win 10). There are plenty of Chineese software giants. So it's not impossible at all.

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Re:Hong Kong children learn to code after school by honest_joe on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @04:57AM (#9610127)

Have you tried to do business in China when it comes to software and services ? Not only are these Chinese software giants backed by government but you have to comply with numerous rules and let government to stick its dirty fingers to your stuff.

Oh and most of these SW companies sell physical goods as well they are not pure SW at all.

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Re:Hong Kong children learn to code after school by rakoo on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @04:48AM (#9610103)

> In countries where there is 98% piracy

I know piracy is widespread in China, but 98% ? That looks like a high number to me.

> it's impossible to start a purely software company

So all these companies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Software_companies_of...) don't exist ?

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Re:Hong Kong children learn to code after school by honest_joe on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @06:08AM (#9610355)

I was obviously exaggerating about it. Sites like nationmaster shows 82% and that's from 2007. And yes they do exist but selling a software to customer is very hard in china. I am talking about direct B2C model...eg you sell a photoshop like program. Most of these companies use the software to support its additional services.

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