Letters to the Editor
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Why even bother to "steal" technology?
Our idiot corporations will gleefully give it away for free. I remember back in the '90s when Dell started shifting all of its production to China. They thought this was real clever, since the Chinese work for practically nothing and there aren't any of the pesky environmental or labor laws to deal with, like we have here at home.
Apparently the morons running Dell didn't think that Chinese workers would take note of Dell's manufacturing techniques, copy them, and implement them at Chinese-owned companies.
Whoops.
Now the biggest threat to domestic computer manufacturers are companies based in China, who learned how to make computers from the likes of Dell. China didn't "steal" anything - empty greedheads happily gave away their competitive advantage. It's like Aesop's fable of the dog and the bone.