Technology patent monopoly is not included in the antitrust bill, otherwise Su Muzhen should be worried that if the company works hard to develop a certain technology, but in the end it does not get protection and benefits, who will invest huge amounts of money and energy in research and development, and the policy is quite flexible.

Making money with technology patents is not a monopoly, but if you bind and promote another product through monopolizing patents, it is also suspected of violating anti-monopoly regulations.

If there is friction between the company in which he has a stake and his own company, Su Mu can't think of how to choose it for the time being, but fortunately, there will be no major problems at present, and there is no need to worry about it.

After Knight went to socialize, Su Mu came to Gates' side and said hello: "Hey, long time no see, I received the first quarter earnings report, an increase of 62 percent over the same period last year, it's crazy." ”

Gates looked sideways at Su Mu and smiled: "It turns out that you remember that you are a member of the board of directors, and I have never seen you appear in meetings, thanks to your CNC alliance, the number of Internet users is growing rapidly, and people finally find that the computers they buy can come in handy, our company has been trying to promote the Internet, and your idea is more useful than spending billions of dollars." ”

Paul Allen, who looked young with a pair of glasses next to him, also said: "yes, what could be better than the spontaneous participation of netizens, I just signed up for a private website the other day, and people can find me by searching for my name." ”

"I'm not going to the boardroom, you need to give me a call, I'll give you the right to vote, that's a good thing for you, Mr. Gates, isn't it?"

Su Mu asked himself, shrugged his shoulders and said: "The company is the most troublesome after it goes public, and it still needs to be voted on to make decisions, but fortunately, the shares held by the two of you can already make decisions, and now that Microsoft is developing smoothly, why do I need to make trouble."

Coincidentally, I also registered a domain name for myself, the same name is my name, but there is nothing on it, and when I have time, let someone help me add some information, so that people don't have to think about who this guy is when they hear my name, but they can't find my information on the Internet. ”

Gates smiled brightly after hearing this, and interjected an irrelevant sentence: "The three individual shareholders who hold the most shares in the company are all here now, Sue, you are a shareholder of Microsoft, but you sent a headhunter to our company to poach people, this is not a good thing, agreed to sign that agreement, right? The one who promised not to maliciously poach each other." ”

Su Mu pretended to be confused, and his expression was surprised: "Is this really the case? I don't know if there is such a thing, Microsoft has suffered losses, and I will also lose, how can I deliberately let people go to Microsoft to find talents." ”

"Deliberately" is the point, which means that if the headhunter comes to the door by itself, Su Mu will not refuse.

Gates didn't debunk his careful thoughts, nor did he mean to delve into it, but changed the subject and said: "Actually, Paul and I came from Seattle this time mainly to meet you and talk about business, and I saw your name on the list and guessed that you might come over tonight, so I didn't go to your company to look for you." ”

Paul Allen doesn't talk much, the limelight of the co-founder of Microsoft is covered by Gates, and he doesn't mean to be in the limelight, although his reputation is not obvious, but the vast majority of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley know that there is such a person, and they nodded.

After hearing this, Su Mu muttered in his heart, he didn't think it was for Penguin, Penguin products come with Microsoft operating system, and the sales volume is not high enough to let the two of them come forward to discuss things in person, and the first time I thought of that browser, including CNC browser, but a more advanced and comprehensive browser.

Only it will attract Gates' attention, combined with the recent news, Su Mu feels that it is nine times out of ten because of this.

Browser and operating system,It's a perfect match,It has the effect of making the indos operating system "finishing touch",Imagine if you are in the position of Gates,You will also be eager to have a browser,Make the indos operating system more perfect,With a richer and more simple user experience。

Nowadays, the CNC client is too cumbersome, you need to enter the accurate URL, there is no content retrieval function, how to let the user find the accurate content that you really want, is also the top priority, this is the difference between the browser developed by Sumu and the CNC browser.

At the end of last year, a group of experts held a meeting at Harvard University, and Su Mu has been thinking about how to use it for his own benefit, and finally came up with a way to directly search for keywords without entering the URL, and then show them to users according to some rules.

The reason why it was easy to come up with it was thanks to the old radio station, when the host often said what to search for and what to scan, Su Mu didn't understand it at that time, and then slowly figured out some meaning.

What needs to be opened for free for ten years is the patent such as hypertext links, and the patents that Su Mu and the company's experts have drummed up afterwards do not need to abide by the agreement at that time, and they can compete fairly with those entrepreneurs, step by step, and unconsciously Su Mu seized a very important opportunity.

Guess why Gates and Allen came, don't look at this Paul Allen, who has the same surname as Su Mu's secretary, and the difference in worth is 108,000 miles, which is more than Su Mu's wealth on the face now, and he is only slightly richer than him when he calculates the value of those patents.

That's when Paul Allen said, "That's right, we're going to buy one of your company's R&D projects, and all the patents, that is, the unnamed browser, and we're willing to give 60 million dollars." ”

"Wow, the project can sell so much before it is completed, no wonder so many people are starting their own businesses now. ”

When Su Mu said this, his face did not change much, and Gates knew that there was no drama at a glance, but he had dealt with him so many times and understood Su Mu's character.

is not very old, but he has a lot of thoughts, not as good as those old foxes on Wall Street, but it is almost the same, most of the young men who started in industry at a young age will not be stupid.

"If you don't think the price is right, you can add a little more, and $70 million should be acceptable," he added. ”

Su Mu was still unmoved, shook his head and said with a smile: "Sorry gentlemen, I don't have the idea of selling this project, it is about to succeed, just now a guy paid 50 million US dollars, just to get its patent authorization, I didn't agree, why sell the chicken that can lay golden eggs?"

When he ran the train with his mouth full, he stretched out his hand to Knight, he just came to see it, thinking that Su Mu mentioned himself to Gates, and he couldn't leave for a while, he smiled like a flower, and waved to Su Mu and Gates.

Gates didn't know the doorway inside, thinking that someone really spent 50 million dollars to buy a patent license, thinking that what was wrong with this world, it was so crazy, and he originally thought that Su Mu would seriously consider it.

The status is almost the same, no one owes anyone money, plus there is a request for Su Mu, Gates said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, it's because we didn't think it through, it's difficult to spend more money to buy it, how about we change the way."

If it is appropriate, I plan to implant your browser into the indos operating system, you should be well aware that we have millions of users, and in return, Microsoft and you hold half of its patents and shares, a very fair deal, which is a huge benefit to you, directly saving the upfront promotion. ”

"Actually, Microsoft has the ability to develop a product with similar features, but it will take time. Paul interjected.

This white-faced, red-faced singing, horizontally ...... It's really bad, Microsoft does have the ability to develop it on its own, but it is not easy to completely bypass Sumu's patent.

"I didn't expect Microsoft to be paying attention to the development of my company, so it wouldn't recruit a commercial spy to come in, right?"

Su Mu was purely joking, the secrecy measures were not strong, and it was normal for the news to leak out, and he returned to a normal tone: "Microsoft's operating system is open, since users can install my browser by themselves, then I don't need to give you half of the shares and patent rights as compensation, in case you continue to develop and kick me away after your product is completed, then wouldn't I lose a lot?"

"How can this be, you can use the terms of the contract to say that you want your product to stay at the leading level, and the indos operating system will have this browser built-in. ”

The assurances made by Gates himself are a bit weighty, Su Mu had never thought about implanting the program into the computer operating system before, and he was already very impressed, but he didn't express it......