wild 1995

Chapter 29 Theory
Tokyo is one time zone earlier than China, so the stock market opens an hour earlier than in China. When Di Ye left the wealth management and investment company, it was not yet 1 pm. He found a public phone booth on the street and called Xu Chenye's home.

"Brother Xu, have you found out the situation clearly?"

"It's clear. The Telecommunications and Data Communication Bureau is indeed debugging the Internet access service. It will be available in the whole city after the Spring Festival."

"Then Senior Brother Xu, are you interested in killing him to find out?"

Xu Chenye, nicknamed "Mr. Hao Hao", has an easy-going personality and likes to make friends. He said with a smile, "I had this intention for a long time, and I called you at noon, but you have not been in the hotel."

"It's not too late to go now, where is your home? I'll take a taxi to pick you up."

When Di Ye first arrived in Pengcheng a few days ago, he bought a tourist map and marked three locations on the map, namely Shangri-La, Runxun Communications, and Pengcheng Post and Telecommunications Office. Now he has visited the first two, leaving only the Post and Telecommunications Office.

1995 was the starting point of the commercialization of the Internet in the world, and also the beginning of the popularization of the Internet in China. Several cities that rushed ahead, such as Beijing, Pujiang, Pengcheng and Hangzhou, all received rich returns in the end.

Before coming to Guangdong Province, under the guise of Di Yan, Di Ye made a phone call to the Pengcheng Post and Telecommunications Bureau, and learned that the Telecommunications and Data Communications Bureau under their jurisdiction was cooperating with a Hong Kong company and planned to open the Internet through the Pacific Ocean Submarine Optical Cable. The network speed is faster than the two 64K satellite dedicated lines in Beijing and Pujiang.

In order to witness history at the Telecommunications and Data Communication Bureau, Di Ye pretended to be an employee of this department when he went to Runxun Company to find Ma Huaquan, because two of Penguin's five entrepreneurial veterans had worked in this department.

One is Xu Chenye. After graduating from Pengcheng University in 1993, he worked in the Telecommunications and Data Communication Bureau for half a year;

After such an operation, whether it is to make friends with Xu Chenye through MCA transcripts, or to fake MCA transcripts to visit Zeng Liqing, Di Ye can use this to enter the Telecom Data Communication Bureau for fun.

Di Ye took a taxi and picked up Xu Chenye, who was carrying a laptop, at the gate of the community attached to the Education Bureau. As soon as he got in the car, he yelled, "Di Ye, you are so wild! You even quoted a large passage from Mao Xuan in the article "Definition of Open Source Software and Related Agreements."

"Isn't the essence of open source coming from the masses and going to the masses?"

"But you're writing a computer paper, not a political paper."

"Theoretically, it's fine as long as it's the same, and the Bagua diagram is also related to binary."

Xu Chenye was in a state of excitement and curiosity, and said: "Baguatu and Mao Xuan are not the same thing! After I post your articles on the Internet, I don't know how foreigners will react, especially Americans."

"You think too much. There are many Americans who have read Mao Anthology. There is no fuss. For example, Tyson watched the English version of Mao Anthology in prison in 1992. He was inspired and later specially tattooed the head of the great man on his right arm."

Hearing this gossip, the taxi driver looked up at the rearview mirror and asked, "Brother, is what you said true or false?"

"real."

When Xu Chenye had dinner with Di Ye the day before yesterday, he heard him say a lot of subversive remarks. He found it both novel and outrageous. He was a little suspicious and said, "Master, don't believe him. This person is very fond of nonsense. If one sentence out of ten is true, it's not bad."

Tyson had indeed read Mao Xuan, and had indeed tattooed the portrait of a great man on his arm, but Di Ye didn't know exactly when it was tattooed, so he lightly let go of the gossip and asked instead: "Brother Xu, have you read all of my articles?"

"After reading it roughly, what you wrote is too brief. Some sentences require repeated thinking to understand, which makes me dizzy."

After Xu Chenye complained a few words, he said enthusiastically: "After the next semester starts, I will print out these articles of yours and show them to the professors in the department. I guess you don't need to take the re-examination, just pass it."

"If that's the case, then I'll treat Senior Brother Xu to a week's feast."

"A word is settled!"

After Xu Chenye was admitted to Jinling University as a graduate student, he did not leave the Bureau of Telecommunications and Data Communications, and his job was still retained. He would return to work after graduating from his master's degree next year, so no one made things difficult for him. He took Di Ye and walked unimpededly into the computer room with the warning sign "Do Not Enter".

The computer room office was empty, with only one person on duty. The Hong Kong team that debugged the Internet access service was not seen. Xu Chenye chatted with the person on duty for a while, borrowed a network cable from him, and connected the laptop he carried to the server in the computer room.

This kind of operation without security awareness would 21% be fired on the spot in the 100st century, but it seemed to be commonplace in 1995. Not only did the on-duty officer not stop it, but he also offered to help guide how to log in to the Internet.

"If I had known this earlier, I should have prepared some Trojan horse programs and put them in the server to lurk. Maybe they would come in handy in the future."

Di Ye complained secretly, and then reported the newsgroup and BBS URLs provided by Liu Shaosong, and asked Xu Chenye to help upload the English versions of those open source articles. As for DY-ZIP, it is not convenient to upload it to the Internet for the time being because it will be used to write a graduation thesis.

"Di Ye, you have painstakingly translated these articles into English, do you want to use them as a stepping stone to apply for studying in a famous American school?"

"I have no intention of studying abroad."

"Why? The United States is so good. There are Stanford, Berkeley, and MIT for research, and IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle for job hunting. It is much better than China."

Di Ye was noncommittal, and said: "Everything is good in the United States, but the food is not very good. I like to eat Chinese food. I am definitely not used to it when I go there, so forget it."

Hearing what he said, the attendant sitting next to him teased, "Since you don't want to go abroad, why do you write articles in English and post them on the Internet? Just write them in Chinese, print them out and distribute them on the street."

Di Ye smiled slightly, and asked back: "Why do I have to go abroad instead of foreigners coming to China to find me?"

The attendant on duty was stunned. He leaned back against the computer chair, shook his thumbs, and mocked vigorously, "You are awesome!"

At this time, the door of the computer room was pushed open, and a burly man wearing glasses walked in and asked, "Who is awesome?"

The attendant stood up from the computer chair and said hello, explaining, "Zeng Li, I'm just playing around with someone."

Di Ye looked at this person's square head, big ears, and powerful appearance, thinking it was too coincidental, stretched out his right hand and said, "Hi Zeng, my name is Di Ye, and I work for Yuncheng Telecom Bureau. I heard that you can access the Internet here, so I came to visit and study."

"Hello, hello, my name is Zeng Liqing, and I am the marketing manager of Longmai Company, a subsidiary of Pengcheng Telecom Bureau."

Xu Chenye looked at the serious Di Ye, then at the bewildered Zeng Liqing, lowered his head and snickered, not revealing.

Zeng Liqing came here to inquire about when the Internet access service would be available. He was a little disappointed when the attendant said that it would be after the new year, so he put him aside and went to Xu Chenye's laptop to have a look.

Xu Chenye worked very carefully. After uploading the article to the BBS, he reopened it and checked it to prevent formatting and typesetting errors. When Zeng Liqing walked over, he happened to see the passage that Di Ye quoted Mao Xuan to explain the concept of open source. He stared at it for a while and cheered loudly: "Who wrote this article? It's awesome!"

The attendant on duty shook his shoulders in shock from the applause, turned his head and asked, "What's wrong?"

Zeng Liqing ignored him, grabbed the mouse from Xu Chenye's hand sideways, dragged the article to the top, looked at the title and author ID, then raised his head and asked Di Ye, "LRF-Di, is this you?"

"Yes."

"It's interesting that you can realize the truth of software development from Mao's selection!"

Di Ye was a little proud and couldn't help showing a smile.

As a student in inland China, Di Ye has never developed large-scale software, and has never been in contact with the Internet. He cannot convince the public, and it is difficult to raise the banner of "open source" out of thin air, so he found a source for his theory, which is a passage in Mao's selection.

"Collect the opinions of the masses (scattered and unsystematic opinions) (after research, turn them into centralized and systematic opinions), go to the masses to make propaganda and explanations, turn them into opinions of the masses, make the masses persist, see them in action, and test whether these opinions are correct in mass actions. Then gather them from the masses, and persist in them. Such an endless cycle, each time it becomes more correct, more vivid, and richer."

This passage perfectly fits the concept of open source. The first part describes the development model of "all participation" and "centralized management", and the latter part describes the market strategy of "forward cycle" and "rapid iteration", so Di Ye put it at the beginning of the article as his theoretical basis.

Among Penguin's five entrepreneurial employees, Ma Huaji puts emphasis on practicality, Zhang Zhidong emphasizes technology, and Xu Chenye emphasizes communication. The three of them are not interested in theoretical things, so they did not find the mystery in the article "Definition of Open Source Software and Related Agreements".

But Zeng Liqing is different. He works in marketing and has a very keen business sense. Although he couldn't read the entire article, he subconsciously thought that there was a huge opportunity in this passage, so he returned the mouse to Xu Chenye, stood up straight, and said, "Di Ye, right? Have you written a Chinese version? If you have one, give me a copy, and I'll read it carefully."

　The text in the book is quoted from the third volume of Selected Works of Mao "Some Issues Concerning Leadership Methods".

　　
　
(End of this chapter)