About Money??..Yes it is, but not in the way your getting at. Companies have lost millions because of the Chinese from stolen IP, technologies.
Hell, they steal from the littlest of companies, that do not have the big money like Motorola and others have.
The Chinese have never played well with the rest of the world, from stealing licensed technologies, to spyware... it does not end.
I agree Moto is surely happy of the news. Especially after settling there lawsuit with Hytera.
Probably won't impact them a whole lot as the Feds do not use a lot of Hytera for critical comms anyway.
Huawei has a long track record in intellectual property theft. In 2004 Cisco Systems, the market leader in routers, took Huawei to court for stealing its core router software code and using it in Huawei routers. The case was settled confidentially. More recently, when Huawei public statements claimed that the 2004 case did
not involve stolen Cisco code, Cisco i
n 2012 replied by describing the essence of their original complaint this way: “this litigation involved allegations by Cisco of direct, verbatim copying of our source code, to say nothing of our command line interface, our help screens, our copyrighted manuals and other elements of our products.” Routers are the core hardware technology at the heart of the Internet. Huawei routers, widely used in China and Europe, have played a key role in Huawei’s growth into a $95 billion global telecom equipment giant.
On February 28, 2007, a Motorola engineer named Hanjuan Jin was stopped by customs agents at O’Hare Airport. They searched her and found she had $30,000 in cash, a carry-on bag full of Motorola documents marked “confidential and proprietary,” and a one-way ticket for Beijing. She was arrested.
Jin was a successful engineer working on Motorola’s cellular technology at a time when Motorola was one of the world’s top wireless companies (and a substantial supplier to the Pentagon). Investigations revealed that after eight years with Motorola, Jin had in 2006 taken medical leave, gone to China, and in violation of the terms of her Motorola employment, pursued a job with Sun Kaisens, a Chinese telecom company that does work for the Chinese military. In 2007, she returned to Chicago and resumed work briefly for Motorola, during which time she was seen leaving the office with shopping bags full of documents in the evenings. Born in China, Jin had gone to the US where she received a master’s degree in physics from Notre Dame, and obtained US citizenship.
In 2012, she was sentenced to four years in prison and a fine of $20,000. At the trial, the judge said: “The most important thing this country can do is protect its trade secrets.”
It is a good idea for them to protect our national security from possible spyware, and so far the Chinese do not have a good track record.
"Before we start throwing any more stones at the Chinese"
Nah... the Chinese deserve the stones they are getting!!