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"Al Barsa" wrote:
Subject: IBM System i guidance on disk drives not manufactured by IBM
...
If you do find drives that are counterfeit, we ask that you provide
information to us as we attempt to track the source of the parts.
Al -
The knock-off drives are no doubt Chinese. That's what happens when in our race to the
bottom for cheap labor/parts we outsource technology and transfer knowledge to the Far
East, where there is little concern (or protection) for the value of American
Intellectual Property.
Unfortunately, _our_ government has been loathe to pursue any claims in the WTO against
any of these manufacturers, so the American companies usually go broke while the
counterfeiters sell the fake goods everywhere, including the USA.
Welcome to globalization...
A few pertinent articles:
Dealing with the Problem of Counterfeiting: Part 1
http://www.allbusiness.com/manufacturing-services/4968947-1.html
Statement of Senator Carl Levin before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review
Commission Hearing on The U.S. China Relationship
http://www.senate.gov/~levin/newsroom/release.cfm?id=268284
Alliance for Gray Market and Counterfeit Abatement
http://www.agmaglobal.org/
- sjl
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