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In article <1992Jan15.215701.14978@nntp.hut.fi>, jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
|> In article <kn6v28INNi4f@agate.berkeley.edu>, jbuck@forney (Joe Buck) writes:
|> >Even
|> >now, they've got the US Government shaking down China because China
|> >is taking a rather GNUist view of intellectual property rights; you
|> >can expect trade sanctions to follow.  (That is, China doesn't want
|> >to have to respect US patents and such, and they copy software freely).
|> 
|> Why should China have to respect US patents?  I don't think any
|> country except the US respects US patents.
|> 
|> #minor US-centrism flame on

Jyrki already send me mail saying he misread me, but just to be clear
for everyone else: I was reporting on a trade dispute between the USA
and China, not taking sides on it.  And the main issue wasn't patents,
it was copying of software and music without paying royalties.  Please
notice that I haven't said what the Chinese should or shouldn't do,
only that there was a dispute.  (Interesting that Jyrki's mail got to
me two days before this posting; I kinda wondered what he was talking
about).

Just yesterday a settlement was announced: the Chinese caved in, because
the US was about to impose 100% tariffs on all Chinese imports otherwise.

-- 
Joe Buck	jbuck@ohm.berkeley.edu