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[happyopossum]

A company I worked for was acquired by a huawei partner, and within a couple of months Huawei was selling a complete hardware and software copy of our product.

GPs story definitely rings true.

[unmole → happyopossum]

Wait, if the company was acquired by a Huawei proxy, how is that same as whatever GP is insinuating?

Full disclosure: I work for Huawei; I am not paid to shill; I am not Chinese.

[forapurpose → unmole]

> I am not Chinese

I'm not criticizing the parent, but it should never need to be said. Nobody here should be judged based on their ethnicity or country.

[Evidlo → happyopossum]

If the company was acquired by a Huawei partner, doesn't that mean the reproduction was legitimate in this case?

[happyopossum → Evidlo]

No, why would it be? It wasn’t produced by the partner, and was never authorized to be copied by anyone. It was straight up copied - source code and all - by Hauwei after their partner got access to our SVN repos.

[random314 → happyopossum]

Why wasn't Huawei sued? I would assume that Huawei acquired the code and design legally if there was no lawsuit.

[__sr__ → happyopossum]

Wait, if Huawei Partner acquired the company, doesn’t it mean they got the rights to its IP? Isn’t that often the sole point of acquision?

Or did I misread something?