• Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    Musebook

    China

    This feels like another Chinese rip off. The Chinese government want to replace the west with in home stolen ideas.

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      Stolen ideas? Riscv is open source and a laptop is not exactly some unique intellectual property. You’re just showing your xenophobia here.

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        Especially since calling a laptop “<some>book” is hardly a civilization-level achievement, hardly even an idea, it’s fashion and I approve of Chinese treating trademarks like this.

        I think trademarks and patents should die. We’d see a better world without them, and very quickly.

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          Star Treks prime directive always stated two criteria - warp tech and calling non-stationary computing devices books. Having invented actual books with pages isn’t necessary.

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      I mean, they’ve seen what you’ve done with that gunpowder thing …

      An ancient empire after all. They learn