Riding the wind of rebirth

Matsui Zuo was not too naive, but directly grasped the key to the problem: "I wonder what proportion of the intellectual property structure of VCs in the two systems, how much does Clover and Microsoft account for respectively?"

"Hahaha..." Zhou Zhi handed Matsui a piece of sirloin: "Why should Mr. Matsui care about this? Our cooperation with Microsoft is not just about VC and VUC. Our cooperation on personal computer anti-virus and streaming media players is even more close."

"I also know the latter. Have you ever held a joint press conference? Windows Midea Player and Antivirus Pioneer." Matsui Zuo didn't take it seriously: "Aren't these software also developed with VC?"

"Yes." Zhou Zhi nodded. As far as the program itself is concerned, Matsui Zuo is right, but the core of anti-virus software is the virus database, system vulnerability scanning, and automatic loading of online patches that have been developed but cannot be implemented in China for the time being. .

The core of multimedia players are various codecs and decoders.

For these two softwares, programming is not an important thing.

However, there is no need for Zhou Zhi to correct Matsui Zuo: "Indeed, as Mr. Matsui said, in the end it still depends on the efficient writing mechanism of VC."

"So Zhou Sang, we still want to understand the intellectual property structure of Clover and Microsoft in VC and see if there is any possibility of in-depth cooperation."

Although Matsui didn't mean it, he said it in no polite way. The reason is very simple. There are not many software engineering projects that China can cooperate with island countries. The VC developed by Clover Company that we now know is considered a , but this requires a premise, that is, Clover's intellectual property structure accounts for a larger proportion than Microsoft, so it has the corresponding right to speak. Otherwise, it is better to talk to Microsoft directly.

"Speaking of it, we are at a disadvantage." Zhou Zhi spread his hands and said: "We, Clover, are doing the work. After we are done, we will split the VC's property rights with Microsoft at [-]/[-], Microsoft at [-]%, and we at [-]%, that is. It is said that Microsoft has an absolute share of intellectual property rights in VC projects."

"However, Microsoft is not making no concessions at all. It eats chicken and only throws one piece of chicken ribs to us, which is VUC's intellectual property rights. We are seven and they are three."

"This exchange..." Jin Chunyi was speechless: "You are indeed at a loss?"

If you don't know the development trend of operating systems in the next few decades, this exchange is really not an ordinary loss.

The reason is very simple. The WINDOWS system is a personal operating system, and its future market prospects are extremely broad. Correspondingly, the prospects for the development and application of programs that operate on this system are also extremely broad.

VC, which emerged out of this demand, is a tool created to develop these programs, and its future popularity can be predicted.

In the future, if any software company wants to develop programs that run on Windows systems, it will be most convenient to use VC. The price of this development software must be high. In the foreseeable future, it will definitely bring rich intellectual property rights to Microsoft. income.

What about VUC? First of all, the UNIX system is not a personal operating system, but a large computer model used by countless people. Its resources are destined to be tilted towards core computing, rather than for the comfort of personal operation.

Secondly, users who use UNIX are relatively high-end, and they are very good at using commands and shortcut keys. For people like Hu Tianyu, for example, the mouse will only "affect the speed of drawing the sword."

For example, to create a new document, the normal operation is to move the mouse to the "File" menu, then select "New" on the pop-up menu, then select "Blank Document" on the new pop-up menu, and then click with the mouse to complete. .

Hu Tianyu only needs to press ctrl+o to get it done, so for these users, object-oriented operation control is dispensable. The third is that although the UNIX system itself is not free, GNU is committed to creating a UNIX-like system to share with the world, and this idea has been initially realized.

This is Linux.

Linux is also the recursive abbreviation of Linux Is Not UniX, but its separate kernel makes the same "mistake" as UNIX. It is not open source and cannot be used directly.

As the performance of computer hardware continues to improve, the PC market continues to expand. The initial mainstream operating systems available for computers are Unix, DOS and MacOS.

However, Unix is ​​expensive and cannot run on PCs; DOS is crude and its source code is strictly kept secret by software manufacturers; MacOS is the same as DOS, but even more outrageous, and can only be used exclusively on Apple computers.

The field of computer science does need a more complete, powerful, cheap and fully open operating system. Therefore, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, an American who was a professor in the Netherlands at the time, wrote an operating system called MINIX in order to teach students about the inner workings of the operating system.

Although MINIX is good, it is too simple. The biggest advantage is probably that it is open source.

Therefore, computer students all over the world at that time studied the MINIX source code to understand the MINIX operating system running on the computer. Linus Torvalds, the last talented sophomore at the University of Helsinki in Finland, absorbed the essence of MINIX and developed it the year before last. Wrote his own Linux operating system, version 0.01.

He removed the core of UNIX, paired it with the GNU suite, and rewrote MINIX into an x86 system suitable for general computers. This perfectly bypassed all intellectual property restrictions and became an operating system that can fully share source code, and Put it on the Internet for everyone to download.

Therefore, the full name of this Linux system should be called GNU/Linux. It is a "Unix-like operating system" that can be used and spread freely. It is a multi-user, multi-tasking, multi-threading and multi-threading operating system that follows POSIX just like UNIX. Multi-CPU operating system.

It supports 32-bit and 64-bit hardware and can run almost all Unix software tools, applications and network protocols.

Prostitutes around the world are cheering, but there's only one problem for Clover.

Install window control operation interfaces and develop object-oriented programming tools for people who are accustomed to using resources for free... Are you embarrassed to accept money?

If you don't charge money and spend so much energy to develop these things, for a company that is in urgent need of growth, apart from burning money for fun, is there any other meaning to contribute to mankind?

Matsui Zuo saw this problem, and so did Jin Chunyi. That's why Jin Chunyi thought that the agreement between Clover and Microsoft was actually at a disadvantage.

Zhou Zhi shook his head and smiled bitterly, assuming the posture of a victim: "It's a loss, it's indeed a loss. There is no way. We started too late and our starting point was too low. If we want to rely on the two big trees of Microsoft and IBM, we have to admit it." This is a loss."

"In this way, people don't think much of us. Fortunately, we have another advantage, which is the low labor cost, which makes cooperation between the two parties possible."

"And our efforts on this end have also yielded some rewards on the other end, that is, IBM has opened up the X86 system bus design process file browsing authorization, and Microsoft has opened up the streaming media interface protocol development authorization for us to use."