This is ironic.  The NY Times is carrying a Reuters report that American software company Cybersitter LLC is suing “China, several major PC makers and two Chinese software makers for $2.2 billion.”  The reason?  They say that China stole 3,000 lines of their software code to create the Green Dam internet filtering software that China tried to implement last year.

1 – Green Dam was generally proven to be a piece of shit that didn’t do what it was supposed to do.  Why would anyone want to publicize that their code was at the base of it?  Though I suppose if they were to actually win 2 billion bucks, they could shut down the company, retire and tell the world to kiss their collective butts.

2 – So nice that China, in an effort to enforce their laws, does so by stealing.  (If true.)

Perhaps the funniest and most appropriate part of the report is a typo about half way down the piece.  After correctly referring to the software as “Green Dam” twice, in the 7th paragraph the reporter (or editor) calls it “Green Damn.”

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