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Marc Englaro wrote:
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<pre wrap="">At 8pm Sunday night, Bruce Badger, Brendan Scott, Conrad Parker and
myself met with a delegation from the Chinese Government interested in
learning about the open source industry in Australia. The Chinese
delegation was in Australia to attend the Open Source Developers
Conference and who contacted Pia Smith to organise a meeting with local
representatives before they flew out today.
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Although I have not personally dealt with Chinese Government
organisations I do have three business contacts who have. They are all
very successfull business people with significant businesses. Two of
the three were severely burned by their Chinese foray and lost millions
in investment and resources. The third attributed part of his success
to: - avoiding setting up facilities in China directly. - developing
strong local (Chinese) importer relationships. - manufacturing for
China from his factories elsewhere in
Asia.<br>
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Their advice when considering any dealings with Chinese organisations
was to get the best business advice you could from those successfully
doing business with Chinese organisations and to maintain a strong
though arms
length business relationship i.e. develop a strong relationship with a
Chinese conterpart, but leave the Chinese side of things to the Chinese.<br>
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Remember the Chinese Government and most Chinese organisations don't
really respect IP, licensing,
etcl. Even where they do have laws, their enforcement is
virtually non-existent.<br>
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