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Russia says its businesses can steal patents from anyone in unfriendly countries

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21 pointsmudro_zboris9 comments

In seventies Soviet Union decided to stop developing own computers and just copy IBM and Intel. With big delays 8086 was copied. Then Intel released 286. Soviet intelligence was able to get all documents and blueprints for that processor. Yet Soviet industry failed to copy that.

So I doubt that parents will be of any use for Russia.

And once the hardware gets copied what are they going to run on it? Is the entire country going to switch to some homebrew Linux distribution?

If Microsoft would just brick every Windows device (revoke license agreement) and block Github in Russia; it would be akin to wiping the majority of the computers in Russia. This conflict would be over in days. Russia would have to surrender via carrier pigeon.

It is unfortunate to see Russia turn from a gray actor to a rogue state within a fortnight. Real loss is of course borne by people.

They've always been like this. It's just that now they are promoting this behavior for the masses.

They never prosecute international cybercrime and they've built a reputation for bulletproof hosting and botnet-for-hire services. It seems to me that cybercrime is going from being something that Russia could have prosecuted but never chose to into state sponsored things that are actively promoted.

Has Sony turned off multiplayer for all Russian PlayStations? Microsoft turned off Xbox live? These are the things that will actually impact the population.

Time to cut off Github and update services like Windows Update.

The "evil empire" has returned.

Stealing patents won't help them much. They never really figured out industrial production or global competition. Their main exports were natural resources (oil, metals), vodka --- and crime, lots of crime all over the world.

When Putin demanded that tractors be made domestically, they imported Czech "kits" and assembled them locally and declared the problem solved.

As Putin's friend Trump would say, that is really "smart", kinda "genius".

Could the west declare that all Russian IP is now public domain?

I think it's fair to assume no Russian companies will be able to press a complaint (lawsuit) in the West for a long time.

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