Riding the wind of rebirth

This is the core spirit of GNU - freedom and sharing. Although GNU is not a public, unrestricted software, and there is still a copyright system, the GNU project allows everyone to modify and spread GNU, and disseminators are never allowed to The program he spreads imposes other restrictions.

In other words, when GNU was designed, no one was allowed to take the modified program as his own. The purpose of the GNU Project is to ensure that all software versions within the GNU Project remain free and can be freely used by anyone.

To put it simply, the copyright of all GNU software belongs to the inventor, and the inventor can choose to charge or not.

But the right to use it belongs to all mankind. Just because it is your invention, you cannot prohibit others from continuing to develop based on your invention, or prohibit others from using it.

All your rights will be continuously protected in the form of implants in the continued research and development of others, but you cannot say that this road was opened up by me, and that those who come after you cannot follow it and have to open another road.

You cannot use your patented invention as a technical barrier to prevent others from participating. This is the core idea of ​​the GPL terms in the GNU project.

So who is best served by this plan?Of course, the information industry started late and faced numerous patent barriers.

China is undoubtedly such a latecomer and has gained the greatest benefits.

The GNU project provides a path for everyone to use freely, and then everyone works together to build this path better and better step by step.

By the time Zhou Zhi was reborn, this road had gone through many iterations, gradually becoming mainstream in the mobile communications market, developing Android, and then Hongmeng OS.

Yes, those so-called Hongmeng is an upgrade of Android. Rumors that Hongmeng steals the Android kernel and only changes the user interface. After understanding the GNU plan, of course they are self-defeating.

A correct understanding is that the earliest GNU/Linux repaired the railway, Android upgraded this railway to a high-speed train, and Hongmeng upgraded it to a high-speed railway.

In Zhou Zhi's last life, this road eventually became an important way for the Chinese to achieve "curved overtaking" of the operating system - completing the back transplantation from mobile scenarios to personal PCs, and then opening up the whole thing to form a new IoT operating system. .

Then one system can connect mobile phones, tablets, computers, smart home appliances, cars, offices...

Catch up with the world's advanced level, and then ruthlessly surpass it to stay far ahead.

In today's China's information industry, which can be described as "tall buildings rising from the ground", the importance of such a copyright-sharing operating system can be imagined.

Therefore, Sugon Supercomputer is equipped with a self-developed operating system derived from Linux, called "Galaxy OS".

There is also a database also called "Galaxy BASE".

As soon as you hear the name, you know that this is a project that has been developed since the Galaxy Supercomputer.

However, supercomputing itself does not have a strong demand for fonts. Its job is to perform massive operations on large units, such as meteorological data, ocean data, etc.

The completion of the transplantation of the Han Character Library involves more program verification operations related to the Han Character Library, especially image recognition and radical decomposition and reconstruction of characters, which are two program verification tasks with a large amount of calculations.

In other words, Hanwen Library requires supercomputing, but supercomputing does not need Hanwen Library very much. Therefore, in front of Professor Li Guojie, the head of the Supercomputing Center, Zhou Zhi and his party were looking for help.

Even if he couldn't get some resources, Zhou Zhi's inner evaluation of Li Guojie was that he was stingy.

There is no need to come to harass Professor Li just yet. Good steel must be used on the edge of the knife. Let's go to the working group to complete the preparations first.Fortunately, both schools are now on old campuses, right next to each other, so they go there quickly.

Huaqing Garden also attaches great importance to the transformation of Hanwen Library achievements, mainly because it is rare to have something that can participate in international cooperation in the information industry. With this opportunity, many subsequent projects can continue to cooperate in depth.

Therefore, the project team is also very happy for the arrival of Zhou Zhi and his party. There are naturally three levels in academic circles, from top to bottom: theoretical research - application research - engineering implementation.

Zhou Zhi and others belong to the second level, and the Huaqingyuan working group belongs to the third level.

Team leader Xiang Xiaodong is also very busy. This team has relatively few staff, but they have to participate in joint development with major companies.

"What a genius idea." Xiang Xiaodong received Gu Kailai and his entourage in the conference room. He felt very comfortable with a project like Hanwenku where one could see the end point at a glance and only needed to plan the way forward and walk through it step by step.

Because what engineers hate the most is exception variables and the invisible future, Hanwen Library basically does not have this problem.

After listening to the report on the project transformation results, Wei Yixin and Leng Yulong also had a full understanding of Hanwenku, and only then did Zhou Zhi put forward the purpose of the trip.

"There is a terminal, but it's just manpower..." Xiang Xiaodong smiled bitterly: "Now that I'm alone, I can't wait to break it into three."

The current work of this engineering transformation team includes software including Hanwen input method, hardware including computer Chinese cards, paging stations, Chinese display modules for mobile SMS platforms, and Chinese character modules for printers... In fact, there are many projects.

Similarly, in response to the second and third phases of work with Hanwen Library, the engineering transformation team is also facing scalability research, and must also prepare for a rainy day.

Zhou Zhi believes that they will only be busier than the Computing Center of Shu University.

So he smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, just give me a user and I will debug the specific program."

"That's no problem. Let's go to the computer room." Xiang Xiaodong breathed a sigh of relief.

The Engineering Transformation Group has a minicomputer in the Huaqingyuan Computing Center. This minicomputer is also responsible for several scientific research projects, and the Hanwen Library Engineering Transformation Project is just one of them.

However, the benefits and advantages of the UNIX system lie in project management and user management. Xiang Xiaodong used his identity to create a user for Zhou Zhi, and opened the directory permissions so that he could operate.

In addition to assembly, the programming software is C. The environment is the same as that of the Shu University Computing Center. Zhou Zhi is very familiar with several software programs.

Another important task Zhou Zhi came to this time was to bring the recent results of the Shu University Computing Center and upgrade the internal version of Hanwen Library and the development tool version of the Engineering Transformation Center.

Because the network is too stretched, Zhou Zhi directly carries the hard drive.

There is also a division of labor within the transformation team. Liu Gong, who is responsible for version control, shook hands with Zhou Zhi: "We have communicated so many times on the phone. When we met, I couldn't believe how young Gong Zhou was."

"Hello Liugong, I brought you Jingyang Dried Tofu this time. I'll pick it up in the car later." Zhou Zhi stretched out his hand and said with a smile, "Speaking of the fact that we have had so many interactions, this is only the second time we have met."

"Yes, the first time was when I went to study at Shu University." Liu Gong laughed and said, "But that time you were not here and we ate all the snacks you left in the center. I'm really sorry."