From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2006-05-17T00:43:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Ticked Off

To complicate things even further at a national level many countries 
practice what is called "infant industry protection" whereby the country 
as a whole simply disregards all international laws (including patents 
and copyrights) in an area that they wish to become proficient in. The 
first world got to it's position of dominance as an industrial power by 
precisely this practise and some countries are still doing this for 
selected industries.

Moral? Ethical? Don't even go there!