@krisYou have brought up a very good angle to the discussion. Now that is what i would expect from the big boys....they recognise good ideas and pay to implement them.
This is how the chinese are making money. Have you seen the sailor, greatwall pickups and trucks? do they look similar to the isuzu or mazda models of yesteryears.... thats because the chinese are buying old technology and relaunching them under their brand names. BRILLIANT
When for example a corolla evolves from a 90 to 100 to 110 to 120 and so on, it doesnt necessarily mean that the 90 is bad, but this means that the japs have found a better way of packaging it and hence the price also goes up. So the chinese will buy the 90, give it a chinese inspired name and sell it cheaper. And remember....they will buy rights to the 90 from the japs. No infringement whatsoever.
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:11 PM, kris njoroge
<krsnjo@gmail.com> wrote:
Wonder if this is the same thing we been talking about? hmmm
"Countering accusations that China's high-speed rail technologies are knock-offs, the head of China's Intellectual Property Administrationsaid in a conference (Google translate; the original is here) that "We bought technologies from German, Japan, France, and Canada. We paid up. It is perfectly legal. We then innovate on top of them like most other inventions in the world. Why is that pirating?" He cited China's ability, the world's first, to build high speed in (high) mountain area as an example of the additional innovations."
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