Eric Raymond, with stray hair, raunchy, and a homeless look, is actually the founder and first president of the Open Source Initiative, one of the most exposed hackers in the world, versatile, and a writer, musician, and black belt in karate in addition to computer programming......

Bruce Perense, with curly hair, stylishly dressed and looking like an artist, is actually one of the founders of the Open Source Initiative, the creator of the Debian project, and an early leader......

Larry Augustine, neatly haired and well-groomed, looks like a Hollywood actor and is actually the founder and CEO of VA-LINUX, which was renamed SourceFe in 2007 and was the world's hottest code-hosting site before the rise of GitHub......

Jamie Gavinsky, with long blue hair and leather trousers riding boots, looks like a rock star, is actually one of the main developers of Xemacs and Scape-Navigator, a key figure and core member of the Mozilla project......

Du Qiu sat in the corner of the conference room of O'Reilly Media Company, looking at a group of guys with different images and talking in front of him, feeling that he was not attending a far-reaching academic conference, but more like participating in an offline event of an online game guild, or a team meeting before a Dota game, surrounded by great gods, and he was just an unknown small character. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In fact, he is indeed a small role, in 1995 or so, China's total GDP is only one-tenth of the United States, the economy is the cornerstone of scientific research, the economy is not good, the strength and influence of scientific research is naturally not good, software and the Internet is a blank, not only there is no famous company, not even a product worth mentioning, it can be said that in the eyes of practitioners in the IT industry in Europe and the United States, there is no difference between China and Africa at this time, if it were not for the four articles that just hit the G spot of these gods, it is impossible to have the opportunity to participate in this meeting。

There were very few people attending the meeting, only a dozen, in addition to the gods of programming, some were reporters from famous media in the industry such as "Wired" and "Computer World", only the reporter of "Wired" had read Du Qiu's four articles, and exchanged a few words with him, and the others either turned a blind eye, or were surprised how there could be a Chinese, and one guy even treated him as a temporary international student who came to work and ordered him to buy coffee.

Du Qiu is an old man who has experienced the baptism of the Internet wave for more than ten years, and he knows very well that the fame on the Internet and the fame in reality cannot be confused, there is a huge gap between the two, so he behaves very calmly, and Chen Dayou is the first brother of the Internet, the first time he encountered this kind of scene, he helped Du Qiu deal with thousands of enthusiastic emails in Cloud City, and he thought that he would be very popular and valued after arriving in the United States, but he was thrown in the conference room very casually, and he didn't even pour the most basic tea and water。

Those four articles didn't seem to be as sensational as I thought they were......

Will the browser work or not? Will it sink into the sea after it is launched? If so, wouldn't my 1 million be empty......

Jiang Danfeng looked at the demons dancing in the conference room, all T-shirts, jackets and jeans, no one wearing a suit and tie, completely different from those international conferences he had seen before, he was curious and puzzled, he didn't know what kind of meeting this was, so he asked, "Du Qiu, who are these people?"

"If you make an analogy between the computer industry and the film industry, there are all world-class stars, and they are the kind of powerful stars who can win Oscars, such as Robert Redford, Kevin Costner, Al Pacino, and so on. ”

Jiang Danfeng was thoughtful when he heard this, and then said with a smile: "If they are all movie stars, you are also sitting here now, is that equivalent to Brad Pitt in "Crazy Flowers of the End"?"

When they were at the airport the day before yesterday, Du Qiu and Chen Dayou had mentioned "The Crazy Flower of the End", after visiting Mountain View City yesterday, the two stayed in the house and buried their heads in testing the browser, and Jiang Danfeng, who had nothing to do, rented the videotape of this movie and came back to watch it, so he knew the characters, plot and main actors in it.

"Crazy Flowers of the End" is a 1991 movie, when Brad Pitt was just a fledgling little person in Hollywood, playing a gangster who cheated money and sex in the movie, because of his handsome appearance, excellent figure, and very brilliant performance, he was loved by a large number of female audiences, and became popular at a rocket-like speed, won the Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival in 1993, and starred in "Interview with the Vampire" and "Burning Years" in 1994 Two blockbusters, in just a few years, have become a new generation of Hollywood blockbuster superstars, Jiang Danfeng is such an analogy, not only suitable for the occasion, but also very pleasing, both praising Du Qiuren for his handsome appearance and expecting him to develop smoothly in the future, showing a high social emotional intelligence.

This is also the main reason why Du Qiu asked Jiang Danfeng to be his personal secretary, she is not as good as Su Wenxiu, but she is very good at being a person, especially good at grasping the proportions when interacting with people, adapting to changes, and having a strong ability to see the wind and rudder, with such a secretary, she can not only become a bridge between herself and others, but also a barrier between herself and others, if there is an incident like Ma Xiaoli, she can be arranged to deal with it, and she does not have to face the embarrassment of tearing her face in person.

At about 9:30 a.m., Tim O'Reilly, the owner of O'Reilly Media, appeared, with a tough-faced, tall, military-looking look, and he said a few opening words succinctly before announcing the official start of the seminar.

Said to be a seminar, in fact, it is more like a brainstorming meeting within an IT company, there is neither a fixed topic, nor a fixed agenda, speak freely, say a few words for a while, say a few words for a while, the atmosphere is very relaxed, but it is very messy, and the efficiency is very low, Du Qiu listened to Jiang Danfeng's translation for about half an hour, chose a gap where no one spoke, raised his hand and said: "Can I say a few words?"

As if he had just noticed that there was such a Chinese in the conference room, Tim O'Reilly raised his hand to introduce everyone and said, "This is UN2758 from China, an advocate of open source software, his name is ...... Hmmm......"

"My name is Du Qiu. ”

"Hi, friends from China. A reporter leaned back in his chair, holding the back of his head with his hands, and with a smile full of mockery and superiority on his face, he loudly teased: "We don't have political censorship here, we don't have Red Guards, we don't need to raise your hand to eat, sleep, go to the toilet, oh yes, and talk." ”

There was a small burst of laughter in the conference room, and in the midst of the laughter, Du Qiu lowered his head and said to Jiang Danfeng: "What I will say later, you can translate it, don't be tactful, the more severe the words, the better, understand?"

Jiang Danfeng also seemed to be angered by that malicious joke, and hummed hard.

"I raised my hand just to show that I was a polite person and had nothing to do with censorship. Du Qiu stood up, looked down at the crowd, and after brewing his emotions for a while, he took the classic passage in "The Fuhrer's Fury" as the blueprint, clenched his fists and banged on the table and roared: "Do you Americans only spit and play with words? I have solved all the definitions and protocols of open source software, and there is only one thing left, and that is to do it! My four articles have been published for more than 2 months, and you are still sitting here talking about the so-called concepts and concepts, no, no, no!" These things don't need to be discussed, just read the article a few times, if you can't understand it, it means that you are all fools!"

The sudden roar frightened everyone in the conference room, and they looked at him dumbfounded, no longer as leisurely and casual as just now, the reporter who was holding his head and leaning on the back of the chair fell backwards, almost fell, and hurriedly sat up straight with the support of the person next to him.

If you don't speak loudly, no one will notice your presence......

Sure enough, it's a wise saying......

Not everyone can be the head of state, Du Qiu roared a few words and felt that his throat was a little unbearable, and at the same time felt that he had attracted enough attention, so he took advantage of Jiang Danfeng's translation to rest for a few seconds, and then stopped talking nonsense, opened the new laptop he bought yesterday, and asked: "Tim, is there a projector here?" I will use a practical example to tell you how open source software should be done, and how efficient the Chinese are!"

Tim O'Reilly, who was sitting at the top of the conference table, was stunned for a moment before reacting, and raised his hand to signal the note-taker sitting near the door to get the projector.

When the projector and laptop were set up, Du Qiu opened the slide file that he had specially made before coming to the United States, and the first image displayed scared everyone in the conference room, especially Jamie Gavinsky, because it had a shocking headline: It wasn't necessarily Microsoft that killed Netscape, but more likely iView.

"iview is a browser I wrote, which will be released on the Internet in the form of free and open source after today's meeting, and I will take this as an example to introduce the experience of open source software development, release, and version control......

The American media industry is very developed, but it is also very snobbish, with Du Qiu and Chen Dayou's family background, they can't afford to invite mainstream media reporters to attend the iview press conference, and there is no mainstream media report, iview is a beauty raised in the boudoir, no one knows, if you only rely on word of mouth on the Internet, the efficiency is too low, maybe the number of users has not risen, the company's funds are exhausted, and there is no way to compete with Netscape and Microsoft, so he decided to take advantage of the east wind, in a grandstanding way, the seminar held by O'Reilly Media Company turned into his own browser conference, so not only does it not cost moneyIt can also quickly attract the attention of industry bigwigs and mainstream media, so as to promote iView.

The participants in the meeting are all elites in the IT industry, the vision is not bad, the highly innovative iview and iscript quickly conquered them, Du Qiu compared the slides, talked endlessly for more than an hour, when he spoke, people kept raising their hands to ask questions, but no one was sarcastic.

"My partners will provide you with information about the iView installer, source code, and documentation related to the iScript language, and that's all I'm going to talk about today, thank you. ”

After Du Qiu finished his explanation, some people applauded in the conference room, some slapped the table, some whistled, and the reaction was very enthusiastic, Chen Dayou was overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately took out dozens of floppy disks from his backpack and distributed them one by one, his oral skills are very strong, and communication is not a problem at all, like a cigarette while distributing, while talking, and when it is finished, everyone knows that his name is Kevin Chen, and he is the CEO of iView Company.

"Hey, Du, I'm JWZ, and I want to have a good talk with you. ”

"Yes, this is my address in the United States, you can come to me at any time. ”

"No, no, no, I want you to go to Netscape's conference room, get everybody together, and then you say the browser from beginning to end, as you did. Jamie Gavinski made a gesture of holding the ball with both hands, emphasizing: "All the details, we want to know. ”

"No problem, anything you want to know, I'm willing to answer. ”

Du Qiu agreed very happily, because in his plan, O'Reilly's seminar was just an appetizer, and Netscape was the main event......