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Originally Posted by Nico Flax

That does not make a good business case and obviously you don't understand how business works. It's not pretty, it's cut throat.

I guess I know enough about business to know that corporate espionage goes on that is not only unethical, but illegal. Don’t you remember when Volkswagen settled with General Motors for the damages caused by Lopez taking confidential General Motors' documents with him when he left General Motors to go to Volkswagen?

Foreign companies open research operations in the U.S. and hire the competitions' engineers and scientists at inflated salaries to find out what the competition is doing. Hopefully Toyota’s motivations are honorable, but many foreign companies’ motivations in setting up research operations in the United States have not been. It is naive to think other wise.