Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 17 The harm is not great, but the insult is extremely strong

"Yo, you're still worried that I'll be cheated. Could it be that you've taken a fancy to me?"

Lu Yiming made a joke.

Of course he knew that the call was definitely real.

"Stop being narcissistic, who would fall in love with you, and I'm not blind."

Lin Yuzhen snorted softly, pouted her mouth, turned her head and walked away with a small mouth.

Lu Yiming followed behind, and joked with a smile: "It's not the best, bro, you can't get a man."

"I don't care!"

The two arrived at Zhu Hanwen's house, and by coincidence, just as Lu Yiming entered the house, the phone rang as promised, and it rang non-stop in the living room.

Zhu Hanwen urged: "Quickly answer the phone, the person on the other side speaks English. If you don't understand, ask Teacher Sun to be your interpreter."

Compared to Zhu Hanwen's impatience, Lu Yi was obviously much calmer. He walked to the landline in a leisurely manner, and Zhu Hanwen's warning sounded next to him: "Remember to turn on the speakerphone."

Sure enough, gossip is the essence of human beings.

Lu Yiming shrugged his shoulders, and had to press the speakerphone, and said in a frivolous tone, "Hi, Mr. Gates, I am the Lu Yiming you are looking for."

On the other side of the phone, Bill Gates yawned and said in a bad tone, "Young man, you are very courageous."

It is [-]:[-] noon in the East Eighth District time. Washington, where Microsoft is headquartered, is in the West Fifth District. It is thirteen hours later than the East Eighth District Standard Time in Xiaguo, so it is just after twelve o'clock in the evening at Bill Gates' side. If it wasn't for this call, he would have fallen asleep long ago.

Sun Jiatong was just about to translate for Lu Yiming, but he heard Lu Yiming speak standard American English. Seeing his fluent answering posture, his oral ability was actually better than her, who is an English teacher.

Facing the obviously angry tone of Bill Gates, Lu Yiming looked calm: "There is no way, it is too difficult to talk to Mr. Gates in a normal way, so I can only do something wrong."

On the other end of the phone, Bill Gates had the illusion that he was talking to another industry leader.

Lu Yiming is so calm!
So calm that even Bill Gates couldn't figure it out.

You know, he is the richest man in the world and the absolute overlord of the software industry!
In a society where money is paramount, he is the uncrowned king!
Bill Gates has long been used to the way ordinary people crawl at his feet and humbly face him.

However, after all, after being the richest man in the world for several years, although Bill Gates had a lot of thoughts in his heart, he didn't show it at all.

After taking a deep breath, Bill Gates adjusted his emotions, and then said, "Tell me, what do you want from me?"

In his opinion, Lu Yiming took such painstaking efforts to patch and poison, the most likely possibility is to make a deal with Microsoft.

This is a businessman's intuition, and reasoning in line with factual logic.

Microsoft has been established for so many years, and it is not uncommon for Bill Gates, a powerful hacker, to encounter it, so he is not panicked at all except for being angry.

Lu Yiming also did as Bill Gates wished, without any twists and turns, he directly offered his own conditions: "Mr. Gates is really quick to talk. Well, I don't want more, 30 US dollars. I promise, this You definitely got your money’s worth.”

"30 dollars?!"

Bill Gates, who was sitting on the rattan chair, even stood up directly, his tone was stunned and angry.

"It's just a few bug fixes, and you want $30 from me!?"

Bill Gates was so angry that he almost cursed.

He does not lack this little money, but as a qualified capitalist, he is very good at calculating accounts.

In Silicon Valley, the annual salary of an ordinary programmer is only 30 to [-] U.S. dollars, and the elite level is [-] U.S. dollars. If you ask three or four programmers to make a patch, it can be done in a few months anyway. How to calculate Not even $[-]!

"You're blackmailing, you know?"

"Oh, the richest man was joking. I won't do anything that breaks the law."

"You just hacked my computer yesterday!"

"That was just a joke. The richest man in the world, wouldn't he be serious with an unknown young man like me?"

After a few words, Bill Gates finally realized that the young man on the other end of the phone was very cunning, as if reincarnated from a non-stick pan.

"$30 is too much."

Bill Gates' tone was cold, and he didn't want to spend the wrong money.

That's enough to buy four Ferrari F355s!
Bill Gates' refusal was completely within Lu Yiming's expectation.If Bill Gates gave the money as he said, he would really have seen a living ghost.

I saw Lu Yiming holding the phone, and said calmly: "30 US dollars is not much at all, Mr. Gates, after all, Microsoft is a great company, and there should be no stains on technology. If others find out, The newly launched win98 has a loophole, and it was fixed by an unknown person first, what will the users think?"

"They will question whether Microsoft's technology is still leading, and how can an industry monopoly that cannot maintain its leading technology maintain its monopoly legitimacy? By the way, I heard that Microsoft is still dealing with the countermeasures of the Ministry of Justice of the beautiful country. Monopoly litigation, right?"

Although Lu Yiming spoke lightly, Bill Gates heard a strong sense of threat from Lu Yiming's words.

That's right!

It's a threat!

An ordinary person from Xia Kingdom, a threat to the richest man in the world!

It all sounds like a fairy tale.

However, fairy tales do happen in reality.

Although he didn't say it clearly, the undisguised threat between the lines was approaching every step of the way, and Lu Yiming almost put a knife on Microsoft's neck.

Bill Gates felt that his lungs seemed to be turning into a volcano, and the feeling of being blackmailed made him unbearable.

It's only $30, not a lot of money, but it's extremely insulting!
"What if I refuse?"

Bill Gates' tone became even colder, as if the frost and snow in the twelfth lunar month had crossed the cables on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and blown directly in front of Lu Yiming.

After all, he is a top boss, not everyone can afford the anger of the richest man.

Lin Yuzhen and the others stood there anxiously, not daring to breathe.

On the contrary, Lu Yiming, who faced Bill Gates' anger directly, had a very calm expression: "Maybe Mr. Clark will be interested in my offer, which is only 30 US dollars. He must be happy to exchange it for a knife that stabs Microsoft."

Jim Clark!
Founder of Netscape!

Because his own browser was blocked by Microsoft, he is currently looking for trouble with Microsoft. This is a hatred involving more than a billion dollars, and the hatred of killing his father is nothing more than that.

Bill Gates frowned, feeling on the verge of rage.

(End of this chapter)