China plans to require disclosure of programs on chips - comments?

[momo]

According to the links below from the The Yomiuri Shimbun Japanese newspaper firms manufacturing or selling in China will be required to make the controlling software of "gadgets" open to inspection. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/business/20080919TDY01306.htm One consequence... http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/business/20081006TDY07301.htm There are plenty of cases of copies of goods made with programmed chips in many areas of consumer and professional markets, just look aroung forums where import/rebadged items are compared to the original innovative manufacturer. Other evident case arises when servicing vehicles etc without the (unreasonably ?) high charge for connecting the manufacturers propietary program on a PC or gizmo to test engines etc. In our case it is evident that programmed chips control the working of A/Cs and inverters... What consequences could this have? A further re-location of manufacturing?

[ice_cool]

we believe it will slowly change the situation. but not very quickly.

[Brian_UK]

Unfortunately I cannot read Chinese so am unable to comment fluently on these articles.

If what you are saying is correct then it appears that they want to be able to copy and manufacturer these items without recourse to copyright or intellectual rights.

[nh3wizard]

Arent they doing this now? CD's, DVD's etc...Whos going to stop them!!!

[yangchenchen]

Japanese is the pioneer of copying other nation's products.
Who blame them?
Why they were not blamed?

[Brian_UK]

They were blamed at the time, now we are picking on the next global manufacturer.

It isn't a personal attack, we just get lazy and expect cheap products so we stop making them ourselves and let you make them.

Now our factories are closed, we don't make anything so all we can do now is complain about your factories.

But, the price is right ;)