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Effects of China's Software Policy on World Economy?

Posted by Cliff on from the great-firewall-of-china dept.

guptaparesh asks: "The Chinese government is currently engaged in a comprehensive overhaul of its procurement policies and regulations. These regulations would ban non-Chinese firms from selling software to the Chinese government. Given that how much trade all the countries in the world are engaged in with China, isn't this a unfair trade move by the Chinese government?" A better question would be how this might affect the worldwide economy, particularly that of the U.S. and China. What benefits and drawbacks may China see as a result of this new policy? What steps might the U.S. take to attempt to counter it?

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  1. How the U.S. can counter it? by 3770 · · Score: 5, Funny

    How the U.S. can counter it?

    Simple, the U.S. government should refuse to buy software from Chinese companies.

    (I pity anyone that mods this insightful)

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  2. For starters by xerxesVII · · Score: 5, Funny

    We could... force 'em to um... only buy Microsoft stuff. That would teach 'em!

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    1. Re:For starters by Spodlink05 · · Score: 5, Funny

      We could... force 'em to um... only buy Microsoft stuff. That would teach 'em!

      As if they didn't have enough human rights issues...

  3. The US goverment already does this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I work for a U.S. government contractor. One of the rules that we have to comply with is that all of our software must be produced in the united states. We can't use open source code because some of it could be written outside of the US. We can't buy licenses for software libraries that could be produced overseas. It's to protect us from potentially malicious code.

    This articles prevents the Chinese Government from buying software from outside of the country. There's still another 1.3 billion consumers there that don't directly work for the government. I don't see this to be a very big problem for US companies trying to sell products there.