This project won China 2014 State Science and Technology Prize
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> I would like to say a great big thanks to all of you for finding this out, for following this issue, for spreading the word, and for making me aware of it. It is a great honor my project has won such a prestigious prise regardless of the circumstances.
> I have written this software for the betterment of everyone and it gives me great joy that people all over the world are finding out about it and finding it useful. I am following this discussion with great interest and once again thank you all!
Everyone else is going nuts with memes and witch hunts, while the developer sits back and is just happy that his software is being used. Unbelievably admirable.
A statement from China Computer Fed (CCF), released a few days after the award was announced, has asked the government to withdraw from the award reviewing process...The original statement has already been censored from CCF's site; and this is what I found in google's cache, which is in Chinese but you could have it translated with google translate...
I personally feel the innovation in this state award winning project is nothing fancy...but note in its architecture it requires no hard drive installed on end user's computing devices as one of its highlighted features (although most of the computing are still done at those end points). Anything from kernel image to application data are all stored in and provided by remote data center(s) (which could be, of course, state controlled), and they call it cloud storage...So I feel the act of giving award to this particular project by the Chinese government might be a sign that Chinese government is thinking about bringing up censorship, personal behavior and identity tracking to another level -- if so, then FUCK the Chinese government
archive.org has a copy https://web.archive.org/web/20120221185906/http://worldsf.wo...
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We've seen stories of chinese corporations blatantly stealing western company technologies and the chinese government doing nothing about it. And here some dude won a national competition on top of OSS and they expect somebody would care?
This time it is slightly different, the award is at state level, and to win that, you'll need a nomination. Think of a smaller scale, Chinese version of Turing award, and the Nominees are mostly professional researchers, say, PIs, Professors at college or research institute. In this case, it's more like plagiarism than stealing techs.
The award itself is very sublime, and, despite of this one, researchers really have to make some big advancement at state(even international) level to get the nomination.
There's an english explanation by Hong Kong Government on this award: http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200610/18/P200610180171.h...
Hahaha! The Chinese Government is not "doing nothing about it". The Government is the main supporter of this.
To get their country to the technology level of Western society is their main objective, like it should be natural, politicians looking for the interest of the people they represent. What do you expect? Chinese following the interest of foreigners?
We were working on China and they offered us to pay us double for the detailed plans of the (Western) machine we were building. Of course we said no, so they offered us 5 times. We again said no and they offered us 10 times. Obviously if you accept the offer it will be the last time you sell a machine to them.
If you give them the plans, like you could do with less valuable things, now they will offer you money for a detailed explanation of the plans, as Chinese education is very lacking today.
You don't have to wait 20 years in order to use something, like patents force you to do.
You don't need to ask for permission to anyone. You don't need to be rich.
For example if you can read a patent on making a chemical vapor deposition system for making semiconductors and implement it, you just can do it and start making semiconductors right now. They will be very bad quality, but you will improve over time because you are actually doing it, and being so cheap you will sell lots of them.
Of course, when a significant Chinese status quo has been created on all areas of technology, they will start respecting their own Chinese patents.
And there are so many "Follow this post" comments. What is the context?
In China's media, if some news is defined as "good news", then only comments like "好！支持！有希望了！" are displayed while doubting or opposing views are all deleted.
Since there is no upvote/downvote to filter out the rubbish, people rush to post their may-may's as fast as possible before the thread gets locked.
It happens constantly, it's not just the chinese (though maybe they don't understand how to subscribe to a thread?)
And last month they they just integrated the techniques into their state-operated firewall, and then, bingo! it works! as a result many VPN services across the country are down (as reported in a NYT article linked below)
Perhaps a white list approach is being used now which would only allow those service providers that are willing to cooperate with the Chinese government to pass the filter...
http://security.riit.tsinghua.edu.cn/share/classify_encrypte...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/world/asia/china-clamps-do...
this is the US after all.