At the beginning of the establishment of Snapdragon, Chen Dayou, like Du Qiu, had a monthly salary of 15,000 yuan, and belonged to the gold-collar class in China, but in the United States, he was not even as good as illegal immigrants who worked illegally, so his life was quite embarrassing, and he ate and drank in Wei Zhiqin's house for nothing.

In July, Du Qiu decided to separate the iVie browser business and set up Snapdragon International, which is also located in Mountain View, only a few hundred meters away from Netscape, in order to compete for talents, the salary system is fully Silicon Valley, Chen Dayou's salary is benchmarked against Netscape's CEO Jim Bucksdale, from a monthly salary of 15,000 yuan to an annual salary of 200,000 US dollars, which is equivalent to 6 times the average salary of the United States, becoming a veritable world-class gold collar.

When Chen Dayou returned to the United States from Cloud City, Xue Liping's beloved son was anxious, and he also followed, not suitable for continuing to live in Wei Zhiqin's house, after his income increased greatly, he spent generously, and directly took the Snapdragon shares in his hand to pledge, and then bought a villa in Atherton, a famous luxury residential area in Silicon Valley.

Sandwiched between Redwood City and Menlo Park, close to Stanford University and just over 20 minutes' drive from Mountain View, Atherton is ideally located, with a large area of more than 4,000 square meters, 5 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms, in addition to the garden, pool, wine cellar and other conventional configurations, there is also a tennis court and a golf green, surrounded by greenery, lush flowers, like a paradise, full of trenches.

"I didn't think about buying such an expensive house, but then I heard an investment manager from Sequoia Capital say that if the CEO of a start-up company is afraid to spend money, it means that he lacks confidence in his own ability and the development of the company. ”

Du Qiu had long been immune to this far-fetched consumption of chicken soup, but he never interfered with how others spent money, and casually agreed: "What the manager said seems to make a lot of sense." ”

"The electronics industry in Silicon Valley has been hit hard by Dongying in recent years, the economy is sluggish, and housing prices have dropped a lot. ”

Du Qiu has no idea of becoming a naturalized American, but he will definitely come to Silicon Valley often in the future, and he really needs to have a house as a foothold, and asked, "What is the price of your villa?"

"$1.75 million, almost $300,000 less than in 1991. ”

"Is it?" Du Qiu didn't understand real estate, but he knew that with the outbreak of the Internet wave, the housing prices here would become more and more expensive in the future, and he was a little excited, and asked: "The villa here can be moved in as soon as I buy it?"

"Some can, some can't, I happened to catch up with this building, the original landlord has been living in New York, occasionally come over for vacation, usually managed by a special real estate hosting company, the maintenance is very good, basically nothing has to be moved, you can live in directly. Chen Dayou said while showing him around: "I'll call the real estate company later to see if there are any similar listings nearby." ”

"Don't worry, let's wait until this time is over. ”

Du Qiu put his luggage in the guest room on the second floor, and after visiting the villa for a while, he asked, "Where is the meeting schedule?"

"Over there. Chen Dayou pointed to the slightly lower annex on the west side of the villa and said, "I have built a studio for you, go over and have a look." ”

The size and furnishings of the studio are similar to the lounge of Du Qiu's Snapdragon headquarters, with two rows of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves placed against the wall on the left and right, filled with computer journals and professional papers published in recent years, and a huge computer desk next to the window, on which are placed two brand-new HP desktops.

"Very good, thank you Brother Chen. ”

"Which of us is with whom, you're welcome. ”

The schedule of the EB standardization meeting was placed on the computer desk, Du Qiu picked it up and looked at it carefully, and found that the schedule was very tight and scattered, in just three days, there were more than 20 seminars on different topics, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "It's really a plate of loose sand, everything has to be discussed." ”

"The 3C gang are all nerds, they like to pay attention to procedural justice, and they discuss and vote, but in fact, there is a fart! In the end, it is not about the faces of Snapdragon and Netscape. Chen Dayou scoffed, walked to the window and lit a cigarette, and said: "If our two companies don't nod, they can't promote any standards, and the standards that can't be promoted are just a pile of waste paper." ”

This is true......

In October 1994, with the support of the U.S. Department of Defense and the European Commission, Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, founded 3C at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In this time and space, the situation has not changed much, such as this eb technical standardization conference, which is the consequence of 3C's loss in the HTML standard.

HTML language since Tim Berners-Lee created the first eb on August 6, 1991, there has been no unified standard, in March 1995, 3C made an HTML 3.0 standard draft out, because the design is too complex, Netscape will put it on the shelf, Du Qiu also regarded it as nothing when writing iVie, without the support of the browser, the draft became a mirror, no one cared.

3C had no choice but to announce the suspension of the development of the 3.0 draft, and then sent out invitations to Netscape, Snapdragon, Microsoft, AOL and other Internet-related companies to meet in Mountain View from September 11 to 13 to discuss the development of new standards.

The British classic political satire "Yes, Minister" said that the United Nations has no leader, many people are mixed, more and more trivial, and in the end nothing will be accomplished, and 3C is almost the same, after the opening of the standardization meeting on September 11, one will argue over the grammatical design, and one will nitpick on the implementation of the details, and the noise is so noisy that Du Qiu watched coldly and shook his head secretly.

In August 1991, the World Wide Web was born, and in October 1994, 3C was established, in these 3 years and 2 months, no authoritative organization came forward to formulate standards, and at the same time, millions of web pages appeared on the Internet, most of which were published by beginners or amateurs, these people's programming level was originally low, and there was no standard for reference, and the quality of the code written can be imagined.

3C wants to standardize eb technology, which is a great thing for the present and for the future, but most of these people who set the standards are from academia, fanatically pursuing a rigorous, concise and elegant programming style, and want to have a purification action on the Internet to force all pages to conform to a unified standard.

This line of thinking looks good academically, but it's completely unviable commercially, because all the pages on the Internet are not up to standard, and if Netscape and Snapdragon browsers can't read them, there are only two outcomes: either the publisher of the page changes the source code, or the visitor to the page changes browsers.

Think about it with your toes, and know that the ending must be the latter, because the cost of replacing the browser is far less than the cost of modifying the source code, so in order to protect their own business interests, Netscape and Snapdragon will never agree with the academic community's disregard for reality, the standardization scheme on paper, and the academic community is also difficult to accept the current ugly, chaotic, bloated Internet status quo, the two sides have sharp opposing positions, do not quarrel genius!

On the evening of September 11, he invited Du Qiu to a steakhouse and proposed: "Autumn, these people only understand technology, not business, and the standards they set are unrealistic and difficult to promote, so it is better for us to get rid of them and join other companies to form an alliance and make our own standards." ”

Self-built alliance, self-set standards are very efficient, but it is easy to split because of interests, or be hostile to other vendors, so that the entire Internet industry becomes more chaotic, this kind of thing has happened in the original history, Apple, Firefox and Opera and other browser manufacturers have thrown off the 3C, the formation of HATG, the infighting between the two sides has made the HTML language stagnant for more than ten years and can not develop, Du Qiu does not want to repeat the mistakes of the past, shirked:" It's a three-day meeting, and it's only the first day today, so don't worry, I'll take out the proposal we discussed tomorrow and see how it goes. ”

"Then I wish you success. Mark Anderson raised his glass and persuaded again: "Autumn, the merger of Snapdragon and Netscape is good for both parties, why do you have to stick to financing? ”

After Chen Dayou released the fake news that Microsoft was preparing to buy Snapdragon for $500 million, Netscape was really fooled, and he frequently contacted Du Qiu in the past few days, trying to merge the two companies, with a price of up to $550 million, but the cash was only 50 million, and the rest was paid in stock.

This proposal is very tempting, because at this time Netscape stock price is at a low level, once the two companies merge, the stock price will definitely skyrocket, maybe it will only take a few days to double the $550 million, faster than robbing the bank to get money.

But Du Qiu still politely refused, saying: "Mark, Snapdragon is a test product I created to promote the concept of open source software, and it is not suitable for Netscape. ”

"Clark never interfered with Netscape's operations, and after the merger, you will be the second largest shareholder of the company, and you will also serve as the CTO, and you will have unquestionable power in research and development, and you can also promote the concept of open source software. ”

"If I open source Netscape-Navigator, the shareholders who own Netscape stock will kill me. Du Qiu cut a small piece of steak and changed the topic with a smile: "Mark, you are not a qualified lobbyist, but you are an excellent investor, and we will have many opportunities for cooperation in the future." ”

"I hope so. ”

On the second day of the meeting, Du Qiu tore off the pretense of talking less and listening more the day before, pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, holding a thick pile of proposals, and wandering between the various discussion groups with the attitude of Zhuge Liang's tongue and fighting the group of Confucianism, with his mouth hanging like a river, and firing on all cylinders, it took only one day to make 17 of the 23 topics lose the significance of the discussion.

There are three reasons why the effect is so ideal, one is that Du Qiu has been very active on the Internet in the past six months, not only has new papers or technologies released every week, but also takes time to answer questions and consultations from netizens around the world.

Secondly, the proposal written by Du Qiu has future mature standards for reference, although some of the content has been deleted for commercial considerations, it is still a lot higher than the quality of other people's proposals, and in the face of absolute strength, there is no point in arguing.

The last reason is because of Du Qiu's special status, the business community thinks that he is the founder of Snapdragon and will think about business, and the academic community thinks that he is an advocate of open source software, will think about academics, and belongs to the intermediate coordinator acceptable to both camps.

On the third day of the conference, after a full day of closed-door consultations, with the strong support of Mark Anderson, CTO of Netscape and Steve Case, CEO of AOL, the organizing committee finally released the "3C 1995 Annual Technical Conference White Paper", announcing the development and promotion of HTML 3.1, iScript 1.1 and CSS 1.0 standards based on the joint proposal of Snapdragon and Netscape.

If the original time and space as a reference system, the successful holding of this conference will speed up the development process of web technology by 2 years, reaching the level of 1997, this is only an academic consideration, if you consider commercial factors, the impact will be greater, all in all, Du Qiu let the Internet industry take a lot of detours, but also let history change, with a new future.

Chen Dayou was not interested in technical standards, and buried himself in dealing with the company's financing, until after the meeting on September 13, when he hurriedly ran over and showed his face at the buffet dinner, he took Du Qiu to the corner and asked: "What impact do these three standards have on Microsoft's IE?"

"There is no impact for the time being, and it will take at least three to six months for the new standard to be rolled out. ”

"What about after the standard is rolled out?"

"IE is going to become very unstable because it doesn't support a lot of the features in the new standard and can't be parsed. Du Qiu said while eating the food on the plate: "According to the usual practice, Microsoft will release the upgrade and update package of indos 95 at the end of the year, and if they want to upgrade IE at that time, you will pay a high price." ”

"Give them upgrades back?"

"Microsoft is an elephant and we are ants. Du Qiu gestured and said: "Continue to drag it for half a year, and drag it until Snapdragon International is listed, and we will have a greater chance of winning." ”

"Speaking of listing, I met Jennifer again today, she suggested that we change Snapdragon International to iVie, saying that it is more recognizable, I think it makes sense, many listed companies in the United States use their own products as names, such as Coca-Cola, HP, etc., Netscape did the same at the beginning, they were originally called Mosaic, and Netscape simply used it as the company name after the browser became popular. ”

"It doesn't matter what the company name is, you decide. ”

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