Exactly, have you noticed that the number of research publications has gone up in high impact journals wrt. China. e.g. Nature ( The top of the tops..)
JD On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Fabrizio Giudici < [email protected]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 9/10/10 09:45 , mP wrote: > > Today patents are only important because the USA is the leading > > economy in the world, and places without patent laws are either > > small or unimportant. In a few years before the turn of the decade, > > China will pass and greatly surpass the USA economy, and funnily > > enough China does not care about copyright or patents, because they > > have lots to gain by stealing and nothing to lose if they respect > > such formalities. In ten years things might be very different as > > patents and copyright as concepts probably change direction or > > might not even exist. > > > You're missing a term from the equation: that one can't maintain a > leading position by copying others' stuff, so the percentage of > original innovation from China will increase; and when it will be > relevant, they will change their position. Making the situation even > worse, since people can influence USA's or EU's governments, but not > China's. > > - -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkyLP2gACgkQeDweFqgUGxdrnACgr1sS9VbHQ6u85g0wSP2Nq0i2 > coYAoKNEkbVDeKcSZFqtWOd8kIuIGVBF > =zhRJ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
