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Then work harder and faster than the people of that "totalitarian" country.

I don't want to rise a child who will waste his/her time with artificial problems created by fake country's level competition. We don't live in the 70s anymore.

Stop putting countries and governments before common-sense and people happiness. A copy-paste of 1Go file is so easy to do, it's ridiculous. IPs and patents were not created for the happiness of the majority.

Maybe that engineer is simply passionated about knowledge and building autonomous cars, and he would like to make it happen wherever he goes. Why stop him? If Apple really wanted to protect that IP, then just publish a patent about it?

Instead of using the existing organizational systems, aka Patents (patents are already bad enough), they attack an individual.

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> Then work harder and faster than the people of that "totalitarian" country.

I really hope it's some very well hidden sarcasm.

> I don't want to rise a child who will waste his/her time with artificial problems created by fake country's level competition. We don't live in the 70s anymore.

Playing citizen of Earth is fun and well until you find yourself or your family in said totalitarian country.

> I really hope it's some very well hidden sarcasm

It is.

> Playing citizen of Earth is fun and well until you find yourself or your family in said totalitarian country

No one will ever become a citizen of earth if no one tries. You can learn from playing.

I prefer to work with an engineer who worked for both Apple and a Chinese company than a fanatic nationalist engineer from any of the 2 sides, regardless of government type.

Did you ever worked for a Chinese company? That engineer worked for both, he works towards a borderless world.

Edit : oh, and he is transparent about it. That engineer has more integrity than Apple.

Edit 2 : if I were able to give an anonymous dollar to that engineer in order to help him, I would do it.

Uh, he didn't release the IP publicly. He was going to take it and give it to another company that presumably is not transparent in the slightest. Doesn't sound like striving for World Peace (c) to me.

Public knowledge is of course the best, but if you can't have that, at least two actors with the same knowledge is better than only one monopolizing it.

I strongly believe the intent was not to move towards a free and open world, based on the evidence provided. It was to move wealth from one company to another, or worse, from one country to another.

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