TotalyMeow wrote:nosfirebird wrote:TotalyMeow wrote:Quite a few companies have taken this attitude and lost millions when their products were immediately ripped off and low-quality copies were sold at steeply discounted prices. And there's nothing you can do about it. Are you going to try to prosecute them? Under what law and how and where? Copyright laws aren't even always the same. Happened to more than one engineering company I worked for and guess what? They stopped outsourcing to foreign countries.
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compartmentalize
How do you compartmentalize a cheese grater??
nosfirebird wrote:i havnt a clue dallane and i where talking about programming. but who would have to steal plans on a cheese grater?? i mean its just holes in a piece of sheet metal.
Please try to get your quotes right, it's pretty annoying and lazy when you mess them up over and over and never bother to fix them. Your last post attributed something to me that you said and to you that I said. :/
You and Dallane were talking about outsourcing work to other countries and how you think it works like a charm. I was giving you my own experience that those companies I have worked for that tried to outsource to cheap labor places like China and India got what they paid for and had their intellectual property stolen from them with no legal recourse to get it back. One of those things was similar to a cheese grater in that it was a simple machine that can't really be 'compartmentalized'. Another was a more complex piece of electronics that couldn't really be broken up into pieces either. Another was a surgical tool which also had to be dealt with as a full assembly as it only had two parts.
I'm not sure how you'd really compartmentalize computer code either as it all has to work together as a unified whole in the end. Isn't trying to chop it up into little bits to protect it and then spreading it around to many agencies a lot of trouble? Isn't it also asking for a lot of bugs?