Sucks they got caught
Oh NOW you care about stealing intellectual property!
Fuck off. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, AI assholes.
Good. Now also steal from Nvidia please. It would be so freaking funny!
I couldn’t care less. Just make cheaper products with near or on par performance and you’re okay in my book.
Good. Fuck Samsung.
Yeah, whatever, anyway are they making loads of RAM? Can I have 64GB of Ram for £300 again please?
Oh no—anyway
Samsung uses monopoly tactics and government support to bankrupt smaller companies and then raise prices. They’re scum.
RAM is so important to the world economy that their patents should be made public.
Ugh just went they settled with netlist!
Computer components being privatized is almost as stupid as privatizing grain in the 1500s. Sure, there are alternatives, but… Are there?
Good for them. Fuck samsung
In a better world, all of these technologies that get stolen by various corpo espionage and reverse engineering teams would be freely shared with the world so everyone can benefit from them, and people not in the dev teams might have improvements they can suggest.
But instead we have a bunch of rich adult children who would rather take the ball and go home because they don’t think they’ve recieved enough praise for bringing it, and wanting to charge everyone just to look at it.
It’s not a great metaphor, but honestly dealing with companies and governments feels a lot like dealing with children you aren’t allowed to discipline or even talk sternly to because their parents have forbidden you from interfering.
The thing is that with the current laws, even if China would open source all the info they have gathered, companies in other countries couldn’t use it.
Let’s not forget that mega corpos benefit heavily from government subsidized R&D in universities, insert themselves within the R&D and claim innovation as their own.
Tech is built on FOSS and private corporations act like they invented butter.
Cambridge University found that the steam engine was held back for ~40 years because of bad patents
You mean 40 years of delay for the destruction of our biosphere?
It’s call that a win.
40 years of burning far more coal than necessary due to inefficient engines
Whether the overall effect was positive or negative with respect to the biome, no clue
Yes, but also induced demand. More efficient engines means less coal per task, but more tasks, maybe so many more that total coal use increases.
That’s why I said we don’t know the overall effect on the biome due to less efficient engines
With how quickly we industrialized, my intuition is we were mining and burning it as fast as possible, but maybe more efficient engines could have let us mine and burn even more
cry more
Guessing they won’t get much in the way of public sympathy given they’re bending consumers over the barrel. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
But if China proves that US did industry spionage, what happens then?
Which time?
This time.
Proving all this in court could give Samsung a powerful weapon moving forward. Legal experts believe the company might take sworn statements straight to the US International Trade Commission, a body with the authority to block foreign products from entering the country entirely.
Which does not help because not every country will ban them and The other manufacturers will then have less demand and therefore have to reduce their prices in order to continue selling the same amount
Edit: Doing so may slow the rate of the price decline in the US, but it will not stop it.
If only there was some kind of court of world trade, that someone hadn’t blocked from functioning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellate_Body
Lol The US will block Chinese RAM from being sold in the US. I’m sure China is super scared.
Oh, I’m just certain they are absolutely frightened to death. /s
Oh no, I’m so terribly upset. /s
