When Du Qiu and Chen Dawei arrived at the Institute of Quantum Physics at about 9 o'clock, they happened to meet Chen Dayou who came back from exercising on a nearby hill, although he was out of breath and sweating profusely, he looked energetic and energetic, and there was still a lot of fat on his face, but the bulging general's belly was obviously a little smaller, and he obviously began to lose weight during the Spring Festival. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This guy seems to really have the idea of doing a big job......

I just don't know if he has the courage to dig a sinkhole with me......

As soon as Chen Dayou opened the door of the dormitory, Chen Dawei couldn't wait to get into the study, and even closed the door, intending to concentrate on the study of the modified game source code, Du Qiu couldn't ask for this, firstly, Chen Dawei was still a student who had not graduated, and neither capital nor ability was enough to participate in the creation of the company, and secondly, he had been honed by the notepad business, and he was already very vigilant about the interpersonal relationship with relatives, and he didn't want to make the trouble of brothers being partners.

"Du Qiu, you sit down for a while, I'll take a shower, and we'll talk later. ”

"Brother Chen, please take care of yourself, I just borrowed your TV to watch international news. ”

After Chen Dayou took a bath, he changed into a dark jacket that only forty or fifty-year-old men like to wear, sat on the single sofa steadily, crossed his hands on his chest, and asked, "Du Qiu, have you made a plan for the Spring Festival?"

"I think about it, I want to make a browser, technology is not a problem, the main thing is money, it depends on whether Brother Chen dares to invest. ”

Du Qiu didn't say that he wanted to do it or planned to do it, but said that he wanted to do it, his expression was very serious, his tone was very resolute, Chen Dayou seemed to be frightened, he couldn't even maintain a steady sitting posture, he stood up and paced in the living room while smoking, and after a while, he said: " A few years ago, you said that you want to build a website dominated by text and software, I thought you were going to engage in something like a network digital library or software download base, so during the Spring Festival, I deliberately looked at some materials to build a website, and also prepared some funds, and now you actually told me to make a browser, and you are ashamed to say that technology is not a problem. ”

He tapped the window with his finger holding a cigarette, and questioned with a sad look: "There is only Netscape in the world that makes browsers, and where does their technology come from?

Du Qiu was not frightened by Chen Dayou's style, he felt that he was embarrassed on the surface, but he was actually excited, so he smiled and said: "Brother Chen, give you a blank piece of paper and let you draw a beauty, you may not be able to draw it for a few months or even years, but give you a model and let you draw a beauty, you may be able to draw it in a few days, Netscape has already made all the things that the browser should have, we just need to draw a scoop according to the gourd." ”

"Are you going to steal Netscape's products? In that case, I don't dare to invest in it, and the lawyer will bankrupt me before the product comes out." ”

"Armani made a suit, Versace also made a suit, the style looks similar, but the style, material and craftsmanship are completely different, which of the two of them plagiarized whom?" Du Qiu used another analogy, and then explained: "When I say Yihulu painting scoop, I refer to the use settings and operation mode of the Netscape browser, and the rest are all written by myself, every line of code is my own, and every technology is also my own, and it has nothing to do with plagiarism." ”

"Netscape has dozens of top international programmers, and there are many Wall Street investment companies to support, once listed, the market value is at least hundreds of millions of dollars, I haven't written code well for four or five years, I can only be regarded as a half-baked programmer, no matter how good you are, at most you are equivalent to a Netscape programmer. Chen Dayou lowered his posture and persuaded in a bitter tone: "Although neither of us is poor, but we will never be able to take out hundreds of millions of dollars, in fact, let alone hundreds of millions of dollars, it is millions of yuan, and the two of us can't get together, the talents are not as good as each other, the funds are not as good as each other, even if we make a browser, we can't compete with them at all." ”

"Who said that there are only two programmers, you and me?" Du Qiu smiled again and said: "I am going to open source the browser and release it to the Internet for free, and then there will be millions of programmers around the world to help us work, and we will not be paid." ”

Chen Dayou rubbed the cigarette butt into the ashtray on the coffee table, sat down on the single sofa with the wooden handle again, and said: "If you write a few small programs in your spare time, it's nothing to open source and be free, it's fun, but it's different to open a software company, there are people in the world who don't make money, but there are no companies that don't make money, because all the people who don't make money are dead! So the company's vocation is to make a profit, not to engage in charity, rent a space, hire workers, buy bandwidth, etc., it costs a lot of money, you make an open source and free browser, what do you rely on to make money?" ”

"Brother Chen, when Yuncheng was engaged in the economic development zone a few years ago, the government not only carried out three links and one level for free, but also gave a lot of subsidies and tax incentives, and it stands to reason that the government is not a charity, so it should lose a lot of money, and what is the result? Now the economic development zone is the biggest economic bright spot in Yuncheng; whether it is at home or abroad, the pricing of many newspapers is lower than the cost, and it stands to reason that the newspaper is not a charity, so it should be a great loss, and as a result, they all make a lot of money. ”

After Du Qiu gave two examples, he took a sip of tea from the porcelain cup, and said: "Brother Chen, you are the first person to understand my four articles, you know how to make money, you don't need to provoke the law to test me, making a browser is a decision made after careful consideration, it will not change, and it will not go wrong, if you don't worry, I will write a beta version of the browser in a few days to show you." ”

Chen Dayou was silent for a few seconds and then laughed, contrary to the rebuke and suspicion just now, he slapped his palms a few times unhurriedly like last time, and praised: "Du Qiu, when you came last time, I thought you were a computer master with a lot of ideas, but now when I look back, I find that you are not only a computer master, but also a scheming businessman, and your four articles are actually written for the purpose of making browsers, right?"

"Brother Chen thought too much, he just felt it, not deliberately. ”

Chen Dayou saw through Du Qiu's hypocrisy, laughed, and said after laughing: "I have suffered losses before, but now I am timid, I don't see a rabbit or an eagle, you write out the browser first, and then I decide whether to invest or not after reading the browser." ”

"Okay, today is February 18th, and I will let Brother Chen see the source code of the browser by March 18th at the latest. ”

If you can write a working browser within a month, even if it's only half as good as Netscape, I'll dare to invest. ”

Chen Dayou was not at ease with Du Qiu's technology, and Du Qiu was not at ease with Chen Dayou's funds, and the two of them stopped at the point, and did not discuss the browser too much, but talked about the emails they received during the Spring Festival.

"There are three main aspects of the emails during the Spring Festival, some are theoretical, mainly discussing the issue of open source software definition and licensing, and some are technical, mainly discussing the algorithm and code of 7-zip, both of which I have on a floppy disk, you can take it home and read it slowly. ”

Chen Dayou gave Du Qiu two floppy disks, then took out another piece of paper and said: " There are also invitations from commercial companies, which I told you about the job on the phone before, and there are two more important invitations, both from O'Reilly Media, one is to get your permission to publish those four articles, and the other is to invite you to Silicon Valley to participate in an open source software seminar, this seminar is very high-level, hosted by the boss of O'Reilly Corporation, Eric Raymond, Larry Augustine and other free software celebrities and business leaders will be in attendance, if you are interested, it is best to hurry up and apply for a visa。 ”

If every primary and secondary school student in China cannot escape the books published by the People's Education Publishing House, then it can also be said that every programmer in China cannot escape the books published by O'Reilly Media, such as the "Easy to Understand" series, the "Reference Manual" series, and "Programming Recipes" From beginner to proficient, from study to practice, from theory to humanities, Du Qiu's laptop has at least dozens of books published by O'Reilly, such as the second of the four articles, which mainly refers to his 1999 issue of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", and the author of this book is none other than Eric Raymond, whom Chen Dayou just mentioned.

It was a high affirmation and honor in itself to be able to let O'Reilly take the initiative to contact and ask for authorization to publish a book, and Du Qiu was a little excited about it, but he valued the seminar more.

Chen Dayou said that the specifications of this seminar are very high, and it is indeed very high. If you make an analogy between the gangs and characters, business giants such as Microsoft and Oracle are equivalent to the six major sects, and the open source software movement is equivalent to Mingjiao, among which Linus, who came up with Linux, is equivalent to Zhang Wuji, Eric Raymond is equivalent to Yang Xiao, Larry Augustine and others are equivalent to the five Dharma kings, the status and influence of the rivers and lakes are very large, these people gathered together, almost equivalent to a pledge meeting within Mingjiao before the Guangming Peak War, which has a far-reaching impact and should not be missed.

"This will be held at the end of March, I don't have a company to sponsor me, and I don't have many personal assets, so I'm afraid it will be difficult to get a visa to the United States. ”

"The company is very easy to solve, you can be attached to Dawei's father's research institute, just stamp a few official seals, the U.S. consulate will not come to check the files, at most make a phone call to ask. Chen Dayou had already known about this, and said with a smile: "You have seven or eight invitation letters from American companies, and all of them are well-known high-tech companies, which belong to elite talents, and Americans may be able to easily give you a green card, let alone a business visa." ”

"Brother Chen is too complimentary, I'm just an amateur coder who has written a few small articles and a small program, where is an elite talent. ”

"What do you mean by a coder?"

"Programmers type line by line, farmers work line by line, programmers fix bugs every day, farmers catch insects every day, code is like rice grains, grains are hard, so the programmer is a farmer who writes code, referred to as code farmers. ”

Chen Dayou laughed, praised Du Qiu for his good word, and then asked: "What does your UN2857 ID mean? ”

"Actually, it doesn't have any special political significance, it's just self-boasting. In a casual tone, Du Qiu said a bold sentence that is still talked about by the Chinese people many years later: "The UN2758 resolution in 1971 marked China's official entry into the international political circle, and my UN2758 marked China's official entry into the international Internet." ”

"You're so kind!"