Reboot 2003

Chapter 256 035: Rice Bucket Cup ([-]-in-[-])

“Are these businesses really bad?”

"It's very bad."

"But with so many software companies like this, there must be one or two that can do it, right?"

"There are some that can work, but they are all established companies like Kingsoft and Jiangmin. As long as they have a little bit of ambition and ability, they will not completely give up ordinary consumer and commercial-grade business and only make money from the government."

"So bad? What about the government projects?"

"Although it's acceptable, I think instead of doing this, it's better for us to go directly to find a capable company. After all, we don't have money ourselves, so we won't waste government projects."

Chen Qin suddenly rejected another plan, and the small channel was a little quiet.

However, although Mr. Li was a little disappointed and Chen Qin was really helpless, in fact, he should have thought of it a long time ago.

There really will be no shortcuts - even if the government is willing to let go, it's not a shortcut.

Just like financial companies like Goldman Sachs and Quantum Fund can use financial means to directly bring down a country's economy, and can use China's oil companies with a market value of trillions as regular cash machines, in the face of technology, the country is actually worse than the Internet giants. There is not much advantage... The so-called nationwide system is for politicians to allocate manpower and resources from any industry at will regardless of the cost. This method is also used by Chen Qin himself. For example, Lao Xu scolded him for directly transferring people from the cloud computing team. This is the case for security engineers. Considering that the destructiveness is not directly proportional to the effectiveness, this strategy often only works when the target project is really critical.

After all, projects are done by people. Even if it is a "nation-wide system", it does not mean that the project will be completed. This is especially true in the software field. Therefore, at this time, the most primitive and economical method is to either organize it yourself or be the one found by Party A. Party B does outsourcing.

For the Chinese government, this kind of business has been very prosperous in the past few years, and it has actually achieved its goals - on the one hand, it serves as a substitute when it is 'stuck', and on the other hand, it has bargaining power when it comes to foreign products. , on the one hand, it is also to protect information security... From these perspectives, today's domestic ToG software has indeed achieved its goals.

However, the level of this ecological chain is really hard to compliment - using open source to make domestic '100% independent research and development', does it sound familiar?Of course it doesn’t refer to the future Huawei.

Government business emphasizes information security. If you say that open source code is safe, the purchaser will not understand it. What’s more, this is actually a false proposition. Early hackers implanted vulnerabilities in open source Unix systems, and the open source community has been looking for them for several years. Find it out, and eventually they get tired of it and announce the answer, and then others find out that the vulnerability is hidden in the compiler. Of course, in most cases, this will not happen. As for the open source code being stuck, it is even more unfounded, but Isn't this just a matter of fear?

Therefore, if the government wants software, it can only find companies on the market and put forward demands. For outsourced companies, there is actually no problem in terms of business logic if they just copy the open source code and make domestic software. People who say it is 100% self-developed are of course bragging. , but you just say whether it is autonomous and controllable. If it is not controllable, can you use your head as a ball to kick?

As for the creation of a group of domestic software manufacturers who only use open source code, there is nothing they can do about it. More such software companies are engaged in independent research and development and do not do consumer-level business at all, let alone ordinary people. Complaining about '100% independent research and development', you may not even know about their existence... Of course, this is not the original intention of the government. After spending so much money, the government also has some ideas to support its own national brands, hoping that these businesses can be sustained. , just like the Internet companies that made money from SMS alliances in the past few years, they have begun to gradually develop consumer-level businesses, and can even 'overtake others around the corner', surpassing the leading foreign software companies in one fell swoop, and earning foreign exchange for the country...

The reason why it ended up like this is probably very simple, that is, there are no shortcuts in software development. Although open source software can be "independently controllable", there is really no point in reinventing the wheel. This is begging for mercy. , but what should we do when we really need to rely on R&D capabilities?

Speaking of this, Ji Xianglin couldn't stand it any longer: "In this case, we can't ask for investment, and we don't plan to accept government projects. What will happen to our Kaitian? If we start from scratch and build the team by ourselves, when we are ready, Google is afraid that He has already left us behind."

He is not from a technical background. Although he knows that Chen Aotian is an expert, problems always have to be solved. Now with tens of billions of dollars on hand, there is no reason that he can't even solve a broken code.

Chen Qin thought about it and said, "Then I can only trouble Mr. Li to work harder. Money is not a problem here, but in order not to affect the normal operation of other departments, we cannot continue to transfer people from the head office. Your team should just work hard. Even if it doesn’t work out, we can still offer Galaxy Software in the future, so there’s no need to put too much pressure on..."

At this point, we can only do this. Pulling the team from scratch seems too slow, but it is indeed the only down-to-earth and reliable way. Now that Google has joined the team, it actually doesn’t matter what happens next. If he couldn't do it, it could be regarded as enriching the company's technical reserves. In fact, this was his original plan.

But at this moment, Mr. Li said: "I understand Xiao Chen's concerns, but our country's foundation is too weak after all, and the rise of IT technology has only happened in the past few years. What is before us now is a For world-leading opportunities, relying on existing domestic resources may not be enough..."

Ji Xianglin also has some plans like this: "Are you saying that we can go to Meili Jian and Europe to build some R&D forces?"

"This already exists, but the language barrier and the business need to be adjusted, so it is still not very effective," Chen Qin said.

Mr. Li said: "What I said was actually another method, but it just didn't feel very decent. I was embarrassed to say it just now."

The two of them became interested: "Mr. Li, you think it's not decent, so what can you do?"

Mr. Li hesitated and said: "Just now I went to the galaxy to discuss the project with them, and Xiao Lu gave me an idea..."

"The galaxy music one?"

"Yes, it's Xiao Lu who makes online songs. She said that our open source model is actually a bit similar to their online songs." Mr. Li said, "They call on netizens to create online songs, and they will use some personal creation competitions to Such activities promote impact, so she suggested that we also do one.”

Ji Xianglin was dumbfounded: "Then what should we do? Just hold a network code design competition? Or an open source design competition? But this seems to be really possible."

This suggestion seems unreliable at first glance, but if you think about it carefully, it is not impossible.

After all, this is an open source project, and open source is indeed an activity that can call on users to participate in development.

Of course, this is just a realistic basis. It is not enough to really rely on this to create a competitive development team - Chen Qin said: "In most open source projects, the contributions of individual participants are mainly focused on testing. It is unrealistic to rely on individual developers to maintain and update it; especially our Kaitian OS is not an independent organization. Everyone knows that its intellectual property rights belong to Galaxy Software, so it is too much to ask other friends to participate in the development. It’s ideal.”

As he said this, Chen Qin vaguely remembered something. For a commercial project, it is impossible to open source the software and then hope that netizens and other businesses will continue to build it. The so-called 'there is no silver bullet' ', open source is of course included in the list - it does not mean that if a software is open source, a herd of cattle and horses will come to work voluntarily. This is especially important for open source projects of commercial companies.Even if you want to find other allies to participate, you have to find a way to attract people from the sidelines. Open source itself is just a platform.

However, Mr. Li said: "I know this, but what I mean is that we can use this method to call on users to develop user-friendly software on our Kaitian platform. If there are more users who want to make money on it, then they are willing to participate Don’t we have more users working on Kaitian OS development?”

Chen Qin laughed at that time, which was even more unreliable - the greatest value of individual participants in open source projects is testing and error correction. Mr. Li was equivalent to recruiting testers. After all, an individual developer may only need A little knowledge of Java is enough, but the requirements for it to play a role in system kernel development are much higher. After all, this suggestion itself cannot solve the core problem.

but……

Thinking of this, Chen Qin became deep in thought and didn't even speak for several minutes. Mr. Li was chatting with Ji Xianglin about how to implement this. Ji Xianglin didn't understand open source software and said, "Let's talk about it for Mr. Chen. I think this can be done." Come on, after all, this can help us increase our influence, and maybe we can recruit some people. In short, even if it doesn’t help a lot, there are definitely small benefits.”

Mr. Li said: "This doesn't cost too much. I think one to two million is enough. Although we are a technical, industrial and trade company, reasonable publicity is also good. We can publicize it more in universities, which will also be beneficial to your galaxy software." help."

"Mr. Li." Chen Qin said at this time, "Is our virtual machine ready?"

"It's done." Li Nanguang said, "Now the Java application can basically run, but the performance is a bit tight..."

"It doesn't matter." Chen Qin said, "Since the virtual machine is ready, I think your method is actually very good."

"That's good!" Mr. Li was happy. "I have no experience in this event, so I still have to ask someone from your company to host it. I think the emphasis is on encouragement. In addition, we can add some awards for special contributors to the system to attract developers." To maintain our system, I think it should be of some use."

"This won't work." Chen Qin said, "I just thought about it, and what you said does make sense. Not only the developers who develop the kernel are important, but the developers who develop the downstream software are also important. You said 100 million, I think it is A little less.”

Ji Xianglin asked: "How much are you prepared to pay? If it is helpful to the project, I think it is appropriate to approve more."

"How about this." Chen Qin said, "Let's increase it by 10 times first. This year, we will come once a month on average. It is mainly used like just now to encourage individual developers to develop software on the platform." Increase it by 10 times. , roughly once a month... This sounds quite scary.

It feels like so much is not necessary. After all, this suggestion itself is just the icing on the cake, and it should not be worth investing so much in itself.Even if you don’t have a lot of money on hand, you should put resources into project research and development.

However, Chen Qin seemed to have suddenly made up his mind. Previously, he refused Mr. Li's suggestion to cooperate with the government. When it comes to technology development, there is no shortcut.

But this time, for some reason, he suddenly became interested in an event that looked like a celebrity draft.

Not only did he have to invest money in this entertainment activity, but he also had to take the activity to a foreign country, but it seemed as if he had really seen some kind of shortcut.

Soon, Mr. Li called Lu Rong, who had just come up with the idea.

Lu Rong knew that this project was important, but she was not very sure about her idea.

After briefly talking about the idea, the initial approach was of course rejected.

But... at least for now, media is one of the core competitiveness of Galaxy Software.

In this regard, the company has always had a lot of various methodologies. Even though this request was a bit strange, Lu Rong quickly revised a few suggestions, which seemed to be pretty good.

First of all...since it is for development, of course it is for the creator group.

For example, when it comes to singer auditions and the selection of original music, of course it must be for singers and creators, and it must cooperate with places like the entertainment industry and Getai.com.

If you switch to developers, that means the event should be geared towards developers or potential developers.

So this event was hosted on GitHub, called GitCup, because there is no media abroad and it can only be centered on the Internet.

The one that is held simultaneously in China is called the Rice Tong Cup... Of course, the name sounds too disgraceful, so it was eventually changed to the 'Open Sky Cup' and is planned to be held for major universities and people from society.

The selection rules are based on sessions. The first session starts in March and runs until the end of June. During this period, some "private experts" who have contributed to Kaitian OS will be selected, and some outstanding software on the platform will also be selected. Of course, , mainly promoting their own profit-making system - although people from Galaxy Software are not directly involved in developing software systems recently, they are also working on similar systems.

Specifically, a set of advertising interfaces for software companies were specifically developed by the technical backbone of the advertising alliance brought from Kuaikan Media and some professionals within the company.

In other words, software producers can import advertisements into their own software through a simple API interface, and then directly make money here.

At present, this technology is not very mature and can only be placed on the application interface of some web templates, but it is indeed a means for developers to make money.

After the start of the "Rice Bowl Cup", it really attracted a lot of interest in the developer community. The Galaxy Network mobile phone has been launched for a year. Thanks to the fierce subsidies from communication carriers, it has been sold to many people at a low price. , although the sales volume of the Guazi mobile phone released at the end of last year is not high, the users are all very wealthy and high-net-worth people.

Coupled with the fact that some second-tier mobile phone manufacturers including Disney, Yamaha, and Lenovo are preparing to make efforts, this software cup competition has become more attractive. Even if you don't win the prize, it seems that you can really earn some advertising fees.

With such expectations, and although the country did not receive support from the government in the end, it did establish cooperative relationships with some universities - especially universities in Shanghai. Banners promoting this programming competition appeared in many universities. on campus.

In this atmosphere, winter is gradually leaving, and after February has passed, the weather has begun to get warmer.

As March draws to a close, it looks like the gloom of winter is lifting.

The snow disaster has of course come to an end - the damage caused by the snow and ice disaster is not small, but fortunately the casualties are not high. The problem exposed seems to be the insufficient construction of public transportation facilities. This issue is frequently mentioned in meetings with a red background on TV. Of course it hasn't been taken into action yet.

However, there is an overseas public welfare organization that has been very high-profile recently - it is an organization called the Red Water Fund. It recently came to China to do charity and said it would invest 10 billion U.S. dollars. It sounds very arrogant, but it seems unwilling to cooperate with China. In cooperation with existing charity funds, some dirty information was exposed in the blink of an eye, such as what the white gloves of corrupt officials are and what bad things they have done on Wall Street. It is said that they were responsible for the recent economic crisis, which made foreigners not I like us Chinese people.

But no matter what, people are indeed doing good things - for this snow disaster, the government's focus is that the infrastructure is insufficient, and this foundation seems to want to increase investment in public welfare projects to combat unexpected natural disasters.

Snow disasters will no longer occur this year, so they have started to do some public welfare projects to combat floods and earthquakes. They are now discussing cooperation with some local governments. For example, to fight floods, of course they are talking with some local governments in the yellow flood area about material reserves. The earthquake project is being piloted with cities in the central and western earthquake zones...

In short, amid the discussion, the public at this time did not show much interest in this. In contrast, what deserves more attention seems to be the upcoming Olympic Games. The Olympic Games are approaching recently, and the whole country is queuing up to pass the torch. Although this is just a sports event, in this country, it seems that it is inevitable to be affected by it——

"Aqin, I haven't been able to come recently. The company suddenly notified me that there is an Olympic-themed support song in Yanjing and we need to be ready to participate in the recording at any time..."

"I remember you said during the winter vacation that there would be an opportunity in March or April. Is that what you meant? Anyway, although there is no pay, I think I probably need to go there this time, so I actively signed up. If it can be finished early, maybe I can still find time to go back to Longshan!"

During class during the day, Xu Lingfei suddenly sent two Fetion messages. She seemed to be busier recently.

But... it's probably about time.

Nowadays, this plane has been changed beyond recognition due to the butterfly effect, but this support song is still here... although the way it comes is a little different. For example, because Galaxy Music has recently become very close to China Mobile, it is true that it participated in this song. During the song production process, Chen Qin already knew the name of this support song, which is called "Yanjing Welcomes You".

If she goes to Yanjing...

Chen Qin thought this way. This song seems to be used at the 100th anniversary celebration. However, people like China Mobile are just starting the project now. They are really hasty. What if something goes wrong along the way?I must go and ask tonight.

Thinking this way, Chen Qin became a little lost in thought. He originally planned to go to Waibo.com to see if there were any replies from netizens, but he forgot something for a while - the popularity of the "Rice Tong Cup" development competition recently exceeded expectations. An important The question arises, that is, how to judge the award in the end?It was said that it would be a judging system, but now the judges on hand are a bit insufficient.

Now, in addition to planning to invite some business people from friends to make the selection, Chen Qin has also @ Linus and Lei Jun on Waibo.com. In addition, he has also @Jobs, who are currently suffering from patent litigation, and @Lei Jun. As well as the two founders of Google, the main thing is a troll.

I was wondering whether I could make it in time for my trip to Yanjing on May Day, and whether I could make use of this to make a living, but at this moment, my deskmate A-Yue was also tapping her cell phone under her seat.

She didn't know what she was looking at, so she suddenly came over with her Guazi mobile phone.

"Chen Qin Chen Qin."

"what happened?"

"Our Kaitian mobile phone, what language is used to program it?"

(End of this chapter)