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To: Amy J who wrote (169003)8/3/2002 11:57:55 AM
From: Bill Jackson   of 186894
 
Amy, The communist government feels that people own all SW rights, and so they freely copy anyone's SW for use in China.
Many other Asian countries do the same. HK, Malaysia, VietNam, Korea etc all have outdoor markets full of pirated goods.
From time to time they have "police raids" on SW copyers.
The police warn them a week or so in advance and they remove al the CDs and replace them with bad copies, old versions etc....and these are duly siezed and the obligatory bulldozer is called in to run back and forth over the worthless disks.
Next day business as usual in the market with the good stuff back on the tables.
It is much the same with the rolex fakes and designed handbag fakes....word goes out and a bunch of off spec stuff gets destroyed.

With this kind of regime it is no wonder that they are coying early Alphas, no doubt those with .50 micron lines or bigger, which is about all they can copy with their methods of reverse engineering. I greatly doubt they have 'developed' an Alpha clone.

Taiwan has a government backed company that brute force reverse engineers state machine type programmed devices to read out the logic equation they run under. That is what was done to the PALs in the IBM XT back in the early 80's

Fortuneately it is no easy game to reverse engineer an A4 or P4 with 0.13 lines, so that is the only defence we have for now against them copying them and selling them in Asia/China etc(we can keep them out of the USA)

Bill
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