Chapter 22: The Sunrise in the East and the Rain in the West

After Du Qiu walked out of the embassy, he saw that Aiko Komatsu followed out, so he stopped on the side of the road and said, "It's work time, is it okay for you to leave like this?"

"I'm sorry for Mr. Du. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" Aiko Komatsu apologized before explaining, "It's okay, my work is free, and I can leave for a while." ”

When facing their bosses or other powerful figures, Japanese people like to show a respectful and sincere attitude, some people think they are polite, but Du Qiu feels that this kind of shrinking appearance is very contrived and hypocritical, so he asked bluntly: "Miss Aiko, you are a spy sent by the embassy to investigate me, right?"

"Huh?"

"Mr. Watanabe must think that I have done illegal things in Japan, such as stealing your country's high-tech technology, but this is China, and he can't arrest me to extract a confession, so he sent you to collect evidence and spy on intelligence, right?"

"Ah, Mr. Du Qiu, please don't get me wrong, there is no such thing. ”

Du Qiu raised his hand and called a taxi, opened the door very gentlemanly, asked Komatsu Aiko to go in first, and after sitting in, he reported his destination, and continued to ask: "Miss Aiko, you have a bug hidden on your body, right?

Aiko Komatsu's appearance is a bit like the Japanese drama queen Takako Tokiwa who was a smash hit in the late 90s, with a thin face, slightly convex cheekbones, and a feeling of beauty and delicateness. ”

The taxi driver is also a good person, looked up at the rearview mirror, and made a playful assist, suggesting: "If there is anything hidden, you will find out if you search it." ”

Du Qiu was as kind as a stream, and said with a straight face: "Miss Aiko, either you get off the bus and go back to the embassy now, or let me search my body when I get to the hotel, choose one." ”

"Whoa?...... Arnold...... I'm not really a spy, I'm just wondering if Ryoji and Yukiho will ever be together. Aiko Komatsu's slender brows furrowed together, and after a moment of confusion, she said timidly: "Mr. Du Qiu, can I ask you to take out the manuscript? I'll look outside the hotel, okay?"

Her age should be around 30 years old, this kind of crying posture is suspected of pretending to be tender, but the temperament is more consistent, but it is not annoying, Du Qiu laughed, no longer posed, and said: "Miss Aiko, I'm just joking with you, please don't mind." ”

"Mr. Du is so humorous. ”

Who knows if you're a fan of fiction or if you have ulterior motives......

It seems that we have to work harder to raise our fame and wealth to a point that the world looks up to, and then we don't have to be wary of it everywhere......

Before the release of the iView browser, Du Qiu had no problem going to Japan, because at that time he was unknown, and the Japanese would not notice him, but after the release of the iView browser, it was more embarrassing, because China did not have a browser development environment before 1995, so the Japanese would think that Du Qiu had stolen their technology - even if there was no project related to the iView browser in Japan.

If you go to Kobe in the case of being a little famous but not very famous, you may be detained by the Japanese under a false name, so Du Qiu's previous two visa applications are just for show, deliberately concealing property, making the information incomplete, not seeking to pass, only refusing to visa, now the concept of open source software is getting hotter and hotter, I have also been on "Wired" and domestic authoritative media, and hooked up with Microsoft, so he is an international celebrity who is not big or small, and if he goes over, he doesn't have to worry about this kind of problem.

After returning to the hotel, he found a printer, printed out the full text, handed it to Aiko Komatsu with an expectant face, and said, "Miss Aiko, can you do me a favor?"

"Mr. Du, please command. ”

"The main purpose of my trip to Japan this time is to find a publishing house to submit, and now I can't make the trip because I haven't applied for a visa, so I would like to ask you to help me make a few copies of this manuscript and mail it to some publishing houses in Japan to see if they are interested in publishing it, because I don't know their address. ”

"Eh, me?" Komatsu Aiko held the manuscript with both hands, nodded vigorously, and assured in a tone that even if he sacrificed his life, he would complete the trust: "Mr. Du, please rest assured, I will definitely handle it seriously!"

It doesn't matter who you are, take advantage of it first......

Around 1995, when Japanese pop culture was popular in Asia, as long as "White Night Walking" became well-known in Japan, you could use this popularity to launch your own plan before the Spring Festival and build an online website......

While Du Qiu was leisurely teasing the Japanese beauty translator in Beijing, Netscape in Silicon Valley was nervous, and CEO Jim Bucksdale and CTO Mark Anderson held a meeting of the company's top management to discuss how to deal with the threat posed by Microsoft's partnership with Snapdragon — a news that made headlines in China yesterday but was unknown in the United States until Silverberg returned to Seattle.

Mark Anderson is a technical genius who wrote the world's first full-fledged browser, MASIC, at the age of 22, but after creating Netscape, although he served as CTO, he never wrote a line of source code again, and has been doing management and marketing work, he was worried about this cooperation, and proposed again: "Jim, I think we should cancel the upgrade fee for scape-navigator and expand the market share as soon as possible, only to capture 70% of the browser market The above share can ensure the leading position and not be caught up by Microsoft. ”

"Mark, do you know how much upgrade money we've received in the past two months? More than $15 million!" Jim Barksdale is a veteran of the workplace, who has been in the business for decades, and his thinking has long been solidified, and he can't understand the free business model at all, and resolutely objected: "If it's not profitable, then what's the use of market share? We should add more features to the browser to attract users to upgrade, instead of fighting in the mud with that rough and rudimentary iView." ”

Mike Houmer, senior vice president of sales, also objected to free access, saying: "Now that a large number of new users enter the Internet world every month, we need to increase advertising efforts to increase the company's exposure and attract them to use our products, in fact, in May we rewrote the iscript engine, and after the launch of version 1.3, the results were very good, the market share increased from 54% to 56.8%, and there were 110,000 more users who paid to upgrade." ”

"But the iView browser is growing even faster, from less than 10% to about 14%, eating up a lot of MASIC market share, and when AOL starts pre-installing, they will grow even faster. ”

"Chinese strength is limited, the product is open source, the threat is not big, the trouble is Microsoft, if Microsoft integrates the purchased browser into windows95 and distributes it for free, how should we deal with it?"

"It's impossible, if Microsoft wants to be free, why spend $4 million to cooperate with Snapdragon, just use iView. ”

Mark Anderson glanced around the conference room and asked, "$4 million isn't much to Microsoft, what if they did?"

"This is using a monopoly position to engage in unfair competition, and we can sue Microsoft, and the Department of Justice will make them unlucky." ”

"Litigation can go on for a long time, even years, and it won't solve the problem. Mark Anderson shook his head, and seeing that Michael Toy, the head of the browser development department, had never spoken, he asked, "Michael, what do you think?"

"In fact, we have a cooperation plan with Snapdragon," Michael Toy glanced up at him, then at Jim Bucksdale, and when he saw that both of them were at a loss, he reminded: "When Du Qiu came to the company to give a technical talk two months ago, he reached an agreement with us to study how to develop an HTML language standard. ”

Mark Anderson was so busy that he had long forgotten about this plan, and his eyes lit up when he heard the words and thought about it. (To be continued.) )