Chapter 236: Defeat without a Fight
Wang Danhui cooperated very well to accept Feng Qianqian's interview, and when it was time to send Feng Qianqian out of the company, she pretended to be casual and asked, "Qianqian, let me ask casually, why did your newspaper think of doing this topic?"
This "Qianqian" made Feng Qianqian shiver, and she forced a smile and said: "No why, cracking down on piracy is a very hot topic now, many newspapers have reported such content, and we are a little lagging behind." ”
"So, do you know why those newspapers are reporting this?"
"I don't know,...... Isn't it the manuscript of your company's team?"
"It's not a manuscript from our company group. ”
"Oh, that's it, otherwise, could it be some new policy of the state?"
"Or, Qianqian, can you please help me inquire about who arranged for these drafts. Wang Danhui said, and stuffed a small envelope into Feng Qianqian's hand. This is the car and horse fee that many companies will give when they ask reporters to help with publicity, but for uninvited reporters like Feng Qianqian, there is generally no such thing as a car and horse fee, and Wang Danhui is also eager to learn the truth of the matter, so she made an exception.
"Mr. Wang, how embarrassing is this......" Feng Qianqian pretended to be polite, and then patted her chest and promised: "Mr. Wang, I will definitely help you ask about this matter, in addition, the interview I just now will soon be reported in the newspaper, and I will definitely write down your demands." ”
"Actually......" Wang Danhui swallowed back when the words came to her mouth. She wanted to say that she didn't actually have any demands, but she just said a lot, is it too late to recycle at this time?
Feng Qianqian was quite sharp, and after returning home, she waved her pen and quickly wrote an interview with Wang Danhui, the marketing director of Tuo China. Because it was in the limelight of various media hyping about the piracy of To'o software, this interview appeared in the newspaper the next day.
"What, Tuo said it was going to sue 20,000 people?"
"The marketing director of Tuo China said that according to foreign laws, piracy can be punished by death!"
"Too intends to launch a million-dollar lawsuit!"
"The company said, even if it took a match from them...... ,Hey,It seems like I'm watching serialization.。 ”
The people who ate melons were shocked. If the previous article was a torture of everyone's soul, when it came to Feng Qianqian's article, it was a bloody bayonet. Who doesn't know that foreigners are the most fond of lawsuits, and no one dares to take it as just a verbal threat.
As the saying goes, eating melons is not too big, and people from all walks of life give full play to their expertise in eating melons and fully interpret the incident. All kinds of gossip spread, and in the end, even Tang Zifeng, the initiator, was stunned.
"Hurry up, check if anyone in our factory is using pirated Tuo software, and if so, delete it quickly. We are such a small factory, if people are fined a few million, not to mention US dollars, even if it is RMB, hundreds of people in the whole factory will have to drink the wind!"
In countless factories, the factory director issued an order to the technical department at the first time. This kind of thing, it can be said that I am not afraid of 10,000, just in case, so many newspapers have reported this matter one after another, you say it is groundless, who dares to believe it? Anyway, the factory director himself does not use CAD, in their opinion, when the factory did not have CAD in the past, it was also very nourishing, how can you be equipped with a computer, you are still inseparable from pirated software?
"Factory director, we really can't do without pirated software, now to engage in design, no CAD really can't work, it's too troublesome. ”
The technical director pleaded pitifully to the factory director.
"Don't you know how many sets of genuine software to buy?" the factory director asked.
"A set of genuine software is 15800, or a shrinkage version, if you want to buy a professional version, you need 36000 a set of ......"
"No, isn't a computer only more than 8,000? How can a set of software cost 36,000, isn't this a money grab?"
"Isn't it just a money grab?"
"Isn't there a cheaper one?"
"A little cheaper,...... Well, there are some, but they are domestic. ”
"Does it work?"
“...... It works, uh, I mean, it's actually similar to To'o's. ”
"So, how much is this kind of domestic software?"
“580。 ”
"You're a pig brain, you don't need to put a set of 580 software, let me buy you a set of 36,000 sets, is there a rebate for buying software? Let me tell you, immediately delete all the pirated software on your office computer, and install a set of 580 domestic software for each person!"
The factory directors have just made a decision, and the notice of the Ministry of Machinery, the Ministry of Chemical Industry, and the Ministry of Electric Power has also been sent. In addition to talking about the general principle of strengthening the awareness of intellectual property protection, the notice has two dry goods: first, all enterprises should carry out self-examination and self-correction, and delete all pirated Tuao CAD software before August 1, 1997; second, all enterprises are encouraged to actively adopt domestic genuine CAD software, among which it is especially recommended that the Huaxia CAD software jointly developed by the Canglong Research Institute and the new Jingwei Software Company.
"I've helped you dig a hole in the sky. If something goes wrong with your software and turns out to be embarrassing, my old man's name will be ruined on you two young people. ”
In a small red brick building in the capital, Xu Zhaojian, the former director of the Second Bureau of the Ministry of Machinery, sat on an old rattan chair and said with a smile to the two people on the sofa opposite him. He is over eighty years old, and his body is slightly fat, but he is in good spirits and speaks with a lot of energy. Although the floor-standing electric fan in the room kept spinning, sending out bursts of cool breeze, he still held a large pu fan in his hand, and waved it lightly from time to time, quite like Zhuge Liang's signature moves.
Of the two on the sofa, one of them was indeed a young man, but the other was a half-old man who was nearly 60 years old, and the silver strands in his hair were even a few more than Xu Zhaojian's. This young man is Tang Zifeng, the executive deputy director of Linyi Machine, and the half-old man is Zhou Heng, the current director of Tengcun Machine Tool Factory.
If Tang Zifeng wants to fan the flames on the issue of pirated software, his own energy alone is absolutely not enough. Even if he could ask reporters to help send a few articles at the expense of the carriage and horses, the leaders of the relevant departments would know that this matter was nothing more than a public relations hype and had nothing to do with national policy. If he makes too much noise and scares the flowers and plants, the relevant departments will probably have to intervene, and as long as he says hello to the media, no matter how great Tang Zifeng is, he will not be able to make a little wave.
Tang Zifeng knew this, so at the beginning, he asked Zhou Heng to come forward and contact the old director Xu Zhaojian, who had long since retired, for him, and asked Xu Zhaojian to back him up.
Xu Zhaojian is the founder of the Second Bureau and one of the founders of the national defense industry. As early as the anti-Japanese period, he led the construction of the base arsenal, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was appointed as the director of the Second Bureau, responsible for the management of the entire mechanical and electrical industry.
There is a legend in the second bureau that before 1980, seventy percent of the domestic machine tool enterprises were established under the guidance of Xu Zhaojian. At least half of the cadres in the entire mechanical system have worked under Xu Zhaojian. Some of them later left the mechanical system to take up important positions in other industries, which in turn allowed Xu Zhaojian's influence to expand into all walks of life.
Hui Chiu-kin responded to the call in the mid-80s and has been away from work for more than a decade. But although he is not in the system, there are still his legends in the system. On some major industrial policy issues, the central leaders had to personally come to him for advice, and he was often able to put forward some insightful opinions, which made people admire his wisdom.
Zhou Heng was Xu Zhaojian's secretary in his early years, so until now, Xu Zhaojian still laughs and calls Zhou Heng "young". When Zhou Heng was on the first plane, in order to develop business, he asked Xu Zhaojian several times to help him "say hello" to some enterprises. Xu Zhaojian was not disgusted by such a request, because he knew that Zhou Heng did not do this for personal gain, but to get out of trouble. Linyiji also grew up under Xu Zhaojian's care, and now when he encounters business difficulties, how can Xu Zhaojian stand by and watch.
It was also during that time that Xu Zhaojian heard the name Tang Zifeng from Zhou Heng. Later, Xu Zhaojian also heard about Tang Zifeng's various demonic performances, and he had already had a strong interest in this young man, and asked Zhou Heng several times to bring Tang Zifeng over to let him see it at the right time. A few days ago, before Tang Zifeng planned to start a propaganda offensive, Zhou Heng took him to Xu Zhaojian's house.
On that occasion, Tang Zifeng seriously introduced his ideas to Xu Zhaojian. He said that design software is an important aspect of industrial technology and is no less valuable than physical equipment. In recent years, the country has introduced a large number of foreign advanced technologies, coupled with independent research and development, and has made great progress in equipment development, but it is very lagging behind in software.
One of the reasons for the lag of domestic industrial software is that a large number of pirated software floods the market, leaving domestic software without any room for growth. As far as foreign software companies are concerned, their profits mainly come from the European and American markets, and they only maintain their existence in the Chinese market, and are not eager to grab profits, so they have always taken an attitude of ignoring or even conniving at the problem of piracy. An important purpose of this is to curb the growth of China's local software, so that China's local software will miss the best growth period.
In the absence of a substitute for foreign software in China, the existence of pirated software allows some companies to reduce their expenses and lower the threshold for them to use software, at least on the surface, only foreign software companies are the ones who suffer. But with the first signs of local software coming to fruition, the situation is very different. Foreign software companies have the support of the European and American markets, and they can not care about the loss of piracy, and once piracy is rampant, domestic software will have no market, so it will not be able to survive, and will eventually die out.
Once the local software is completely wiped out, foreign software manufacturers will show their fangs, and they can make as much price as they want, and they can quickly make back the losses of previous years. What's more, the software will also be a tool for them to curb the rise of Made in China. Once the technological competition between countries enters a critical period, foreign manufacturers can completely paralyze China's industrial research as long as they interrupt the supply of software, and the whole country will be defeated without a fight.