"Teacher Song, do you want to fight for the title this time?"

On the campus of Beijing University of Technology, Liu Yong, a teacher in the Department of Computer Science, caught up with his colleague Song Delu and asked him in a low voice.

Song Delu looked helpless: "Teacher Liu, don't laugh at me." I've been saving papers for a few years, and now there are still two papers missing, how can I be eligible to apply. Alas, it's too difficult to publish core journals in our line of work now, a typical wolf has more meat and less meat, and there are a lot of related manuscripts. I asked a friend to inquire, and there are two core journals that directly mark the price of the papers, 10,000 yuan for one article, and they don't give invoices. ”

"Hehe, I'll give you an inside piece of information, don't give it out. Liu Yong said mysteriously.

"What is the inside information, is it related to me?" asked Song Delu. He didn't seem too eager, who knows if this Liu Yong is playing tricks.

"Let me ask you, have you developed a few software for the mechanical department in the past?" asked Liu Yong.

Song Delu nodded: "Yes, it was the algorithm they proposed over there, the program I made for them, and they used it to assist in CAD design." ”

"The CAD over there in the Department of Mechanics is our domestic Huaxia CAD, right?"

"Yes, they don't have enough funds to afford genuine Tuo CAD, so they have been using Huaxia CAD. Actually,I think Huaxia CAD is also pretty good,The main functions are similar to Tuo,It's just that the interface is a little ugly,It doesn't hinder using。 ”

"Don't talk about the interface first, let me ask you, can your software be directly hung under Huaxia CAD?"

"If you know the interface of Huaxia CAD, you can hang it in. The Department of Mechanical Engineering asked me to design those software for use with Huaxia CAD. ”

"Look, this is your chance!" Liu Yong said excitedly.

Song Delu was a little confused: "Teacher Liu, what do you mean?

Liu Yong said: "You must not know yet, right? Huaxia CAD is about to announce the switch to open source software, all the source code is open to the public, and people from all walks of life are welcome to carry out secondary development on the basis of their source code. ”

"Really?" Song Delu also rejoiced, "If that's the case, that's great." The Department of Mechanical Engineering has been asking me to help them improve Huaxia CAD and add a few special modules to it. I've been exploring the interface of Huaxia CAD these days, but I didn't expect them to change to open source, which is too convenient. ”

"I'm not done yet. Liu Yong sold Guanzi, "You don't want to know what happened later?"

"What's going on next?" asked Song Delu.

Liu Yong lowered his voice again, so low that Song Delu almost had to put his ear to his mouth to hear.

"Let me tell you, Lao Song, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Information Industry, and the Commission of Science and Technology are about to join forces to require all units to write application modules for Huaxia CAD's open source software and calculate them as scientific research achievements. If you write an app that can be accepted by New Matrix and promoted as an official app, it can be equivalent to a Category B article. Liu Yong said.

"Class B!" Song Delu's eyes widened. He worked hard to submit articles everywhere, and in the past year, he also published 2 C-class articles, and he didn't dare to hope for B-class journals. The number of Class B journals itself is small, and there are not many papers published in a year, and most of the pages have been booked by the industry bigwigs, and the competition for the remaining pages can be described as fierce.

It is said that these journals receive hundreds of submissions every day, and the editors simply can't read them, so they directly use the title of the contributor to screen them. Professors' manuscripts are basically able to have a chance to be reviewed, and associate professors' manuscripts largely need to be lucky. As for a small lecturer like Song Delu, the editor can look at the title of the manuscript, which is particularly favorable.

But now, Liu Yong told him that as long as he writes a few applications for Huaxia CAD, and if these applications can be recognized by New Jingwei Company and used as official applications, they can be equivalent to papers in B-class journals, isn't this a window opened by God for him?

Song Delu still has some programming talent, and he has participated in the project of the Department of Mechanics before, and the programs he helped them program have also been well received. He has been thinking about how to hang those programs under Huaxia CAD to use, but he didn't figure out the interface of the software for a while.

Now, Huaxia CAD has actually opened up the source code, he no longer needs to find the software interface through the method of decompilation, and can directly write the interface program according to the requirements of the source code, and it is easy to submit several applications with good quality.

Of course, there are some difficulties for these applications to be recognized by the new Jingwei company, but it is also an opportunity, isn't it? Even if it is not recognized, Liu Yong said, as long as the application is submitted, it is considered an achievement, but the level is slightly lower. He already has some papers, and with these achievements, he is eligible to apply for promotion to associate professor.

"Where did you hear this news, why haven't I heard it at all?" Song Delu asked Liu Yong excitedly.

Liu Yong said: "This news was told to me by a relative of mine who is a director of the Ministry of Science and Technology. He said that several of their ministries are in the process of countersigning the document, which will be distributed to schools and research institutes in a few days.

"I'm worried that when the document is officially announced, the whole country still doesn't know how many people will get in, and then we won't have a chance to get it right. Let's take the first step and occupy a few pits first. As long as our procedures are excellent, are you worried about not getting certification?"

"You mean...... Let's ?" Song Delu heard some clues.

Liu Yong sneered: "Yes, Lao Song, you also know, I don't have that programming talent, and I can't make any good programs." Otherwise, I'll do some chores for you, and when the time comes, I will upload the module, and I will also be a name, which can be regarded as the second author. I have a little relationship with the Ministry of Science and Technology, so I may be able to help talk about it and get the new Jingwei company to accept the module you wrote.

"Also, I won't report the job title this year, and when you get promoted, I'll report it again, it will definitely not affect you, what do you think?"

"No problem, I'll go back to the computer room now and bring up those programs to change them. In the future, if you can be recognized by the new Jingwei company, there will be half of me in the military merit medal, and there will be half of yours. Song Delu said in high spirits.

The joint efforts of the four ministries and commissions to promote the writing and application of Huaxia CAD by university researchers are the result of the appeal of Xu Zhaojian and other old leaders. After Tang Zifeng and Li Kejia discussed the matter of software open source, he wrote an application report and handed it to Xu Zhaojian.

Xu Zhaojian couldn't understand the meaning of open source at first, and as soon as Tang Zifeng said this to him, Xu Zhaojian was also incited, regardless of his age, he contacted several industrial seniors like him, and began to lobby the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Commission of Science and Technology and other departments.

According to Tang Zifeng, although there is still a certain gap between the hardware manufacturing capacity of the domestic machinery industry and foreign countries, it is not difficult to catch up with and surpass the foreign level over time. At present, the biggest shortcoming in China is industrial software.

The backwardness of domestic industrial software has a lot to do with the indifference of Chinese people's awareness of software copyright. Of course, the deliberate connivance of foreign software vendors with the proliferation of pirated software is also an important reason.

Affected by pirated software, the income of domestic software manufacturers is not the same as that of foreign giants, which in turn affects the investment of these manufacturers in software development. In addition, due to the lack of sales of genuine software, it is difficult for software manufacturers to obtain enough user feedback, which is one of the important foundations of software development.

Today's mechanical design can no longer be separated from industrial design software. Western countries have now included industrial design software in the scope of technology export audits, and the most advanced algorithms are prohibited from being exported to China. What China can buy from abroad is only some algorithms that are two to three generations behind, which leads to China's machinery companies directly losing at the starting line when they are developing technology.

"Software is also a core technology, and it is a core technology that is more important than hardware. ”

This is what Tang Zifeng said to Xu Zhaojian, and Xu Zhaojian also told the officials of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Commission of Science and Technology to listen.

Knowing that the new Jingwei company was going to disclose all the source code of Huaxia CAD, the officials of several ministries and commissions were taken aback. After listening to the idea of the new Jingwei company, on the one hand, they were moved by the boldness of the new Jingwei company, and on the other hand, they also ignited some hope in their hearts.

Huaxia CAD is not a simple drafting software, but has integrated many design functions. The idea of the new Jingwei company is to mobilize the strength of the whole country to develop more functional modules based on Huaxia CAD platform to adapt to the application of various professional fields.

For example, to design a machine tool gearbox gearbox, drawing itself is not difficult, the difficulty is the selection of gear modulus and other parameters, which involves a series of complex calculations, and even such calculations do not have a recognized standard answer, many scholars are constantly proposing new algorithms, and the calculation model needs to be updated at any time.

Professional software companies can't keep up with the pace of theoretical innovation, and they can't design a set of computing modules specifically for every emerging theory. But the open-source approach can solve this problem very well, and when scholars come up with new algorithms, they write out the calculation program by the way and put it on the Internet for people to download.

If the company wants to accept this new theory, it only needs to hang this program on the CAD interface, and the design can be easily completed.

If the vision of the new Jingwei company can be realized, it means that Huaxia CAD will expand rapidly in a very short period of time and grow into a universal industrial design software, which is so powerful that it will far exceed the similar software provided by foreign manufacturers at a high price.

As for the reliability of these modules provided by amateur developers, it is natural that other programmers will verify it. As an open-source software, everything is designed transparently, and with so many people auditing, the reliability will not be inferior to that of major manufacturers' products.

(End of chapter)