| ▲ | gethly 4 days ago |
| Software patents is such an americanism. In this case, I prefer Chinese approach to ignoring patent law altogether. |
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| ▲ | InTheArena 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| In general China has historically taken any sort of intellectual property rights and outright theft very differently then the rest of the developed world. |
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| ▲ | renewiltord 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| When you're in manufacturing, ignore IP When you're in IP, bang on IP That's just the path for all who do this stuff. America seems culturally to like IP (everyone saying that copyright law is paramount and LLMs should be stopped, etc.) but that's just recent history. |
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| ▲ | navigate8310 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| That simply kills innovation and dries up funding for research. |
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| ▲ | Zetaphor 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | China is far ahead of the US in many sectors, notably electric cars and solar panels which are two industries whose progress heavily depend on research and innovation. | | |
| ▲ | throw0101d 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | > China is far ahead of the US in many sectors, notably electric cars and solar panels which are two industries whose progress heavily depend on research and innovation. Ahead in production. Did China research/innovate/develop those industries, or were they 'just' fast followers? (Early in its history the US used the same 'tactics' relative to the UK and other European countries.) | | | |
| ▲ | tracker1 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | State-sponsored industrial espionage isn't the same as innovation. |
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| ▲ | henry700 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's what I think too, BUT curiously is not the case for China. Imagine if the DeepSeek breakthroughs were patented and closed instead of published in the open. And here we are, and they're not patented and not built on patented technology. | | |
| ▲ | e9 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Probably because DeepSeek creators were afraid government would just come and take it from them. The only solution was to open source it which is kind of a big middle finger to the Chinese government. |
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