Former TSMC engineer indicted for trade secrets theft
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KissSh0t
This just made me think of Adam Jensen for some reason..
chronek
The highest thefts are patents, copyrights and licenses, they rob the entire society from technology development, competition and cheaper products. We could have flying cars for free energy long time ago...
Kaarme
Pure-play foundry turned into foul-play foundry.
Nobody's going to spend millions developing new technology if they can't get the money back. Where would the development money come from in the first place if the developers never had a chance to make any profit? From a communist government? Sure, some of it, but if you look at the current world, most of the things we enjoy every day or dream of every day come from private enterprises. In Soviet Union a plastic bag was luxury.
On the other hands patents expire in time, allowing everybody to copy the innovations after a while. The expiration time is calculated so that the inventor should have had time to get back their money and them so more to make it worth it.
The only problem in this system are the flaws in the American patent and justice system, which make patent trolls possible. I doubt Trump is going to fix that. We are lucky if he doesn't make it worse.
Noisiv
chronek
Kaarme
Prince Valiant
Patent laws getting changed for the better is probably about as likely as monopoly laws getting revisited.
Lane
fry178
and destroying the environment while doing that.
why do you think all those US brands all of a sudden have tainted toothpaste, pet/child food and so on. because china dumps their trash/waste wherever they want,
which then leads to heavy metals etc ending up in soil/water which is used to grow stuff being shipped around the world.
just because someone uses a led powered by solar to light up their plant, doesnt mean that those things were produced with the environment in mind...
germany recycles waste at almost 90%, fulfilled the 2020 goals for green energy already in 2013....
just stop subsiding the gas prices and raise them to the "real cost" of around 10$/gl, and we wont even need new roads for the next 20y because of less traffic, have less accidents, less pollution...
and can then spend that money on public transportation.