Now they're just making up moral standards their own government doesn't hold.
Reverse engineering is a no-go?
And yet, the Japanese government led a focused and concerted effort to reverse engineer American code.
Is it only acceptable when the Japanese government does it foreigners?
1970s MITI Policy: Japan's Ministry of International Trade & Industry (MITI) subsidized Japanese firms to study & adapt U.S. computer tech, including reverse engineering software/hardware for domestic industry growth. Funded projects like the Technology Research Association of Advanced Computers (1972-76).
IBM-Compatible Mainframes: Fujitsu sold IBM-compatible systems as early as 1971—matching performance at lower prices. Hitachi & others followed. MITI supported this "catch-up" strategy to compete with IBM dominance via compatibility.
Government-Backed R&D: MITI provided major funding (e.g., billions of yen) for joint projects on mainframes, semiconductors & software. Firms like Fujitsu, Hitachi & NEC reverse engineered foreign designs with government encouragement & subsidies.
Legal Tolerance: Japanese copyright law (post-1985) generally allows reverse engineering/decompilation for interoperability, ideas, & interfaces (not protected expression). MITI emphasized freely disseminating software ideas for economic growth.
Context & Shift: This was part of Japan's post-war industrial policy to absorb & localize Western tech. By the 1990s, U.S. pressure led to scaled-back proposals, but tolerance for compatibility-focused RE persisted
@thuczacz@NCyotee I do not relate to examples about slavery or racism, because Japan has neither. So that example means little to me and does not interest me. If you bring up the history of such a barbaric people, I neither understand it nor have any desire to.
@NetAppCreator@NCyotee That’s simply not how ethics and morality work in like 90% of cultures. If something is morally wrong, it’s wrong regardless of its legal status.
For example in XIX century US slavery was legal, but it was still morally reprehensible.
Ok, thank you for clarifying.
Then my question so stands.
Why no uproar for the past theft when it was committed?
It seems very hypocritical to the rest of us. We don't really care that it happened, we care that you're angry admit it's doing it, while not caring when it happened at the time it happened.
한국엔 미들네임 개념이 없다 했더니
“어? 그럼 너랑 이름이 같은 사람을 어떻게 식별해?” 하길래.
“한국은 개인에게 부여되는 고유 번호가 있어.
신분을 인증할 땐 이 번호가 이름보다 더 중요해.”
라고 설명했는데 말하고보니
너무 디스토피아적인 느낌이 나서 화들짝 놀람.
@NetAppCreator In English, you're saying that it doesn't matter that you broke the law, all the matters is you broke the law.
Is that translating?
It's like saying
It doesn't matter that you jumped, what matters is if you jumped
The words make no sense in that order.
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@NetAppCreator That makes no sense.
It doesn't matter what you did, but it matters if what you did is illegal?
Fine, in this case, no law is being broken.
And even if a law were bent broken, why are you investigating? That's up to the company and the courts.