The June 27, 2005 issue of "Fortune" published an article asking when China will protect Intellectual Property (I found the article thanks to this commentary on The Register). The MPAA claims that 95% of DVDs and other recorded entertainment sold in China are pirated.
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Recently I have been very negative about the Open Source Community in China and the half hearted efforts by foreign communities to help develop an Open Source Culture in China. A friend of mine, Anne Stevenson-Yang, working at Blue Bamboo in Beijing recently wrote me to announce a conference she had been working on, International Software Innovation Forum 2007 Exhibition of Innovative Technologies and Open-Source Software, to be held in Beijing January 30.
When I look at companies like Red Flag, Turbo Linux, Co-Create and SunWah, I see token open source development houses that are more focused on service and integration. Now, these companies can be great for the community in localizing open source applications and standardizing them for government and financial industry projects, as well as contributing patches back to the community (I can't confirm this), but I don't see these companies very active in the Western community.
One California-based company is going to try. And they're going to make those "green" bricks in Wisconsin, not ship them in from China.
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President Xi’s recent instructions on blockchain also show that the Chinese government and relevant institutions are embracing new technology trends at a very rapid pace. After AI, China has great ambitions for blockchain technologies.
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