Redcore lesson: money talks, but not always

THE DEVELOPERS OF REDCORE claimed it to be China’s first self-innovated intelligent browser. But hours after the developers obtained a funding of 250 million yuan ($36.4 million) from the market last month, they were exposed for stealing Google Chrome’s open source code. Science and Technology Daily comments:

Programmers around the world are using the open source code. Although there are no laws prohibiting its use, users must abide by the open source agreement, and maintain the spirit of common contract.

The Redcore developers believed more in bragging about how their product would help the investors earn huge profits in the future, and little in the common contract spirit. By doing so, the developers violated the rules of the game.

Nobody knows how or why they claimed an invention the world already knew very well about. With Google Chrome’s name popping up frequently while installing Redcore, even a layman would doubt their claim.

The developers’ only aim may have been to attract funds. But how could so many venture capital companies be fooled by Redcore, which is nothing but an

The General Offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council, China’s Cabinet, have jointly issued a regulation on prevention of and punishment for data fraud. The regulation took effect on Aug 24.

The regulation aims to establish a supervision mechanism to prevent data fraud and punish those who commit such frauds, in order to guarantee the validity and accuracy amateur counterfeit?

This brings to mind the fake chip innovation in 2005, when a researcher at Shanghai Jiaotong University erased Motorola’s logo from its chips and reprinted on them a new logo comprising the “name” of his government-funded project.

The inflow of huge amounts of investment, and the desire to make money combined with the lack of knowledge about the government and market rules for breakthroughs in key science and technology fields have polluted some professionals’ minds, with some of them betraying the spirit of science and using crooked means to earn instant money and fame.

The authorities therefore should take measures to raise society’s scientific temperament and prevent faux innovators from fooling people to gain instant benefits. The fraudsters should know one thing. Money talks, but not always.

Statistics supervision

of statistics in various regions and departments.

The regulation stipulates that the National Bureau of Statistics, in general, will be in charge of the statistics supervision work, whose key focus will be local Party leaders and the officials responsible for statistical work in different regions and departments.

The regulation says a statistics fraud accountability mechanism will be established, and those committing data frauds will be held accountable according to relevant laws and regulations. It also says statistics supervision officials are obliged to strictly abide by political, organizational and other work disciplines.

And if the supervisors conceal a statistics fraud in a region or department; distort or fabricate facts; disclose national secrets, commercial secrets or secrets related to their work; or abuse their supervisory power, they will be punished according to the Party’s discipline or relevant laws and regulations.

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