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China Files Case Against Intel's Wireless Network

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the going-thru-the-money dept.

Krishna Dagli writes "China has launched a case against American chipmaker Intel's near-monopoly on encryption standards for wireless local area network (WLAN) equipment, state press reported Monday."

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  1. Well call the kettle black... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    *China* is accusing Intel of unethical behavior?!

    Hah!

  2. Re:china? whaa? by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 5, Informative

    since when does china care about patent law?

    Nothing to do with patent law.

    Short version. IEEE submitted 80211i, China submitted WAPI to ISO to be international wireless encryption standards. IEEE won, WAPI lost. China is complaining that IEEE did something bad during the lead up to the voting process. No news sources are reporting what that something was as far as I can see.

    So we have nebulous claims of interference in the ISO process. No more, no less.

    (I'm not sure whether I dislike/distrust Intel or China more)

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  3. Re:Suit against intel? by hyfe · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Stands to reason, any country that kills its own populace certainly would do something like this.

    Yeah, it's about time they grew up and started killing other countries' populace like the grown-ups are.

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  4. Grow up. by Lally+Singh · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Note to slashdot repliers: Enough with the ad hominem attacks. If you don't like what China's doing, talk about what they're doing, not what you like/dislike about China.

    We've all got our personal opinions on politics and the politics of technology, but if our words are to mean anything, we've got to appeal to higher standards.

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  5. Chinese Hypocrisy by reporter · · Score: 5, Interesting
    This legal action that Beijing has taken against Intel is not the first instance of Chinese hypocrisy.

    Consider the princelings of China. They and their parents are members of the Chinese communist party. These princelings live, for long stretches, in the West and enjoy its freedoms and prosperity. Yet, the parents of the princelings fully support and enforce the draconian Chinese "laws" that crush human rights in China.

    I have personally met some of these princelings.

    Do they realize their hypocrisy? Yes. Do they care? No.

    Here is another, more damning, example. In 2001 in Northern California, the Chinese consulate in San Francisco sponsored an anti-Falun-Gong meeting conducted in Santa Clara, California. Chinese students from San Jose State University, Stanford University, and other neighboring universities, attended the meeting. The Chinese student associations at the respective universities fully supported the anti-Falun-Gong meeting.

    These Chinese students enjoy the freedom and prosperity in the West but, actually, support the draconian Chinese "laws" that crush human rights in China.

    Do they realize their hypocrisy? Yes. Do they care? No.

    By now, you should realize that the authoritarian government in China exists for one reason: the majority of Chinese either support the authoritarian government or are indifferent to it.

  6. Re:china? whaa? by JulesLt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Intel hasn't (to my knowledge) killed anyone protesting against it, in full view of the world's cameras, just because it can.

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