Re: Talented people are unfortunate in Japan

[Taro Toporific]

Large amount judgment of invention countervalue projects Japanese corporate society
....The head temple of the intellectual property rights which should know such these situation just increases a confrontation mood between researcher and companies. ...
......Since a superior official did not permit research, the inventor resigns a job and appears in external.

Man-o-man... that author sure has a fondness for obliuity.

Ol' Dando-san sure's got some fun ideas....

...I think that the explosion of the Internet including the appearance of these deai-kei dating sites will ... be very interesting to see how many more babies will be born in Japan, thanks to the Internet.

"JAPAN CLOSE-UP" December 2001
http://dandoweb.com/e/singles.html

[Cubed]

Leaving his rather verbose vocabulary and mediocre grammar aside, he has a good point. But the problems not isolated to Japan. Ahh, the tech boom was the brief respite in the backroom drudgery that is being a tecchie.

Personally I retain copyright on all systems I develop - just so that some "IT Executive" f%&kwit doesn't try to make a small killing on my hard work.

[Socratesabroad]

I'd agree with Cubed, Dando does have a few good points, but I had to give up on the English version and read the Japanese (my head kept hurting).

I had seen interviews and the like with Nakamura, who basically stated flat out that Japanese companies would have to start compensating their engineers or, like Nakamura himself, they'd go where the money is (i.e., Europe, the US).

The trial description was quite a laugh - this was the first time I had ever seen anything more than the judge's ruling in print media. The part about Nichia's defense that the patent had cost them 1.4 billion yen to build a manufacturing infrastructure and continue research and development - just so they could maintain a manufacturing monopoly instead of licensing out the rights - almost made me fall out of my chair.

A good read, thanks to the comedic interlude.