Chapter 49: Time of Crisis!

After Jia Lei and the others went back, they immediately went to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to change the name of Mosaic Company, that is, from this time on, Mosaic Company was renamed Netscape Communications Corporation, a famous giant on the Internet.

"Now that time is pressing, we need to immediately inform the whole company to be ready to work overtime. In the next month, no one in the company will be allowed to take vacations, and all of them will be given to me to work overtime in the company!" Jia Lei immediately ordered after arriving at Netscape, and the time was so urgent that he didn't have the heart to ask Jim Clark for their opinions.

"This ...... It's almost the weekend, and you're asking everyone to work overtime now is going to cause employees to complain? Isn't that okay for us to do?" asked Mark Anderson hesitantly, no employee likes to work overtime.

"When is this coming, am I afraid that they will complain about me!

If we can't develop new software before the end of the year, then our company will go out of business, and then we will all be finished together! Do you understand the seriousness of the matter?" Jia Lei couldn't help but roar, he found that Mark Anderson hadn't realized the seriousness of the matter until now.

"Jia Lei, why are you so angry? Why, did you go to negotiate with Telescope Entertainment Company this time?" Mark Anderson asked worriedly, because he found that Jia Lei and Jim Clark were not very good-looking.

"You guessed it, our negotiations didn't go well! The people from Telescope Entertainment told us that we had to give up the name Mosaic and Mosaic Browser completely by the end of the year, or they would take us to ......court," Jim Clark said with a wry smile, he didn't expect that he would one day stand in court after living his life in dignity.

"Oh my God, it's only a month and a half before the end of the year, so what are we going to do now?" asked Mark Anderson anxiously, he was so panicked that he couldn't think of anything to do.

Of course, we should quickly develop new products and replace the original old products, so that the name on the software can be changed by the way, and as long as the name Mosaic is not on our products, we are not afraid of being sued in court. Jia Lei had a headache and said that this idea was a method he came up with when he was in Telescope Entertainment.

"You're right, it's really a good idea to develop new software right away and replace the wrong browser!" Jim Clarke's eyes lit up after hearing Jia Lei's words,

Because this matter came so suddenly, Jim Clark didn't have time to think of a solution along the way, he didn't expect Jia Lei to help him think of a solution to the problem so quickly.

"You two are crazy! I'll admit it's a good solution, but now that there are only 45 days left until the end of the year, how can I develop a brand new software in such a short time?" asked Mark Anderson in a frustrated voice, was this an impossible task for him.

This kind of thing is easy for Jia Lei and the two of them to say, but it is not easy for him to do it at all!

"I don't care what method you use, anyway, you must make new software for me within 45 days! Otherwise, our company will be seized and shut down by the court, do you understand?" Jia Lei asked with a headache, when the time comes, Telescope Entertainment Company will definitely apply for the government to remove their software.

"Has it really come to this? Clarke, don't we have any other way?" asked Mark Anderson, looking at Jim Clark as if for help.

Jim Clark turned his head and sighed deeply and didn't dare to look at Mark Anderson, Anderson was a little bitter in his heart, he had always treated Jim Gram as his father.

"Anderson, you have to understand that these 45 days are already the longest rectification period we can get...... I really tried my best!" Jim Clark said with a wry smile, and the other party wanted them to take the browser off the shelves immediately and then top it themselves.

"Anderson, don't be so naïve! Our browser has become popular among Internet users all over the world, and who would want to watch our company monopolize such a large multinational market."

If it weren't for the fact that the people at the University of Illinois still had a little conscience and shame this time, I'm afraid we wouldn't even be able to use this 45-day buffer period.

I look at the people at Telescope Entertainment who seem to be eager to grab our Mosaic Netscape 0.9 logo and put it on their own products, and if you can't upgrade the new product within 45 days, then we will completely lose the millions of customers that we have developed. Jia Lei said worriedly according to his temples, and once these customers are lost, it will be difficult to pull them back.

In the shopping mall, who doesn't know time and money equals money, brand equals credibility, especially a brand like Mosaic that can bring huge profits is even more valuable.

"Okay, I understand what you're saying! I'm going to give an order to everyone in the software development team to come back and develop a new product immediately.

Rest assured, I'm not going to let people take away the Internet browser that I've researched from me, they can take the name Mosaic but not my browser. Mark Anderson clenched his fists and vowed that this was the first time in his life in more than 20 years that he had suffered a loss.

It was only then that Mark Anderson understood for the first time that under the oppression of capital, technology inventors and technology creators really had no room for resistance, and then he finally germinated the heart of wanting to enter the field of financial investment.

"You're right, we can't let anyone take our browsers and customers away from us! I don't want to go through a second ...... again," said Jim Clark, clenching his fists tightly, he had suffered a loss once before, and he definitely didn't want to repeat the same mistake this time.

"You two don't worry! Since I also have a share in the Mosaic Company, then I will not let anyone take away the market and interests belonging to our company under any circumstances...... , let's see you in court!

I have an international team of more than 20 lawyers, and if I go out to fight a lawsuit with them, how can I help you drag them out for a year and a half.

Hehe...... , I don't believe that you won't be able to research new software by then!" Jia Lei said with a sneer.

As an evil rich man and a capitalist who picks his skin, Jia Lei has no other lawyer to have!

So many of the companies under his name have long hired professional lawyers in several international law firms all year round, ready to fight lawsuits at any time, and these people are all called corporate counsel.

"If the method of fighting a lawsuit is not a last resort, let's not use it! Isn't it just to change the software again, and I may be able to do it if I fight hard. Mark Anderson watched Jia Lei finally grit his teeth and stomp his feet and said that he gave up his life and fought for it even if he didn't want it.

"We still have to fight first, and then think of other ways, if this matter can not go to court, it is better not to go to court, so as not to have disputes with other companies on patent property rights in the future." Jim Clark nodded approvingly.

Then from this day on, all the staff of Netscape Company fell into the crazy overtime day and night, and Jia Lei also began to live in Netscape Company from this day.

"What should I do now? What should I do now? Rewriting a piece of software is definitely not something that can be done in a month......" Mark Anderson said as he sat on the computer with his hair tugging at him, and it was a big project to upgrade or update a software version.

"Anderson, are you stupid? We just need to replace the trademark on the software this time, who told you to really rewrite a software?" Jia Lei looked at Mark Anderson in disbelief and said, he had never seen such a real person as Mark Anderson.

"But...... But if there is no certain function upgrade update, how can we use any excuse to release a new version of the upgrade software?" Mark Anderson looked at Jia Lei in disbelief and asked.

If their new version of the software is just a brand change and there are no other upgrades and changes, once it is launched, it will be ridiculed by all peers, and if the software function is not upgraded, customers will not necessarily update the new version of the software.

"Hmm...... At this time, it's almost impossible to make too many changes in a software update, because we simply don't have enough time to rewrite the code.

You should now go to find a few Internet software art talents, our version update is mainly reflected in page optimization and aesthetics.

I think that with the basic structure of the software source code not changing much, only changing the appearance of the page should reduce your programming workload, right?" Jia Lei thought for a moment and asked, this seemed feasible based on his experience in his previous life.

"You're right, if the workload of just changing the page code of the browser can really be compressed into a month, then let's do it!" Mark Anderson gritted his teeth after listening to Jia Lei's words.

At least for ordinary customers, the page changes to look better and smoother, and the software is equivalent to upgrading, as for being ridiculed by peers or something, they can't care about it now.

So Mark Anderson led the software development team of Wang Jing Company and began to make new software based on the Mosaic Netscape 0.9 browser.

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10 December 1994

"What's Pete's breakfast today?" Jia Lei walked up to Pete in a crumpled T-shirt that hadn't been washed for two days and asked, he lived directly in the office at night, so there was no place to change clothes and eat breakfast.

"I ordered all the seafood porridge and sandwiches from a nearby restaurant, and I also prepared fried salmon and other flavors for you.

You see what you like to eat and tell me, and I can buy it for you the next time I go. Pete took out a large cooler and opened it, and there was steaming seafood porridge and many dishes inside.

"Everyone has been so busy these two days, you don't have to prepare food for me, I'll just eat hamburger, fried chicken or pizza with everyone in the future. Jia Lei frowned and said, the food in front of him seemed to be a little too rich compared to the breakfast of other people in the company.

Now that almost all of the more than 200 people in Netscape live and eat in the company like him, Jia Lei doesn't want to engage in special treatment at this time to make people gossip.

"Boss, you are still young and in the development period, how can you not supplement nutrition at this time?" Pete said disapprovingly, of course, the nutrition needed by a developing child like Jia Lei cannot be compared with those adults.

"Don't you understand? The more times like this, the more I have to establish an image of sharing weal and woe with everyone, so that I can quickly be accepted by everyone in Netscape. Jia Lei couldn't help but roll his eyes and said, otherwise he wouldn't have stayed in Netscape every day to help Jim Clark and them with chores everywhere.

"How else are you going to buy people's hearts?

In the past few days, all the personnel distribution of Netscape Company, as well as their food, use, and housing, are all worried by the boss and you alone, if you don't have the people in this company who can't even eat, it will soon become a wild man's nest and a garbage dump.

Now every programmer in the company is about to call you grateful dad when they see you, do you think your hearts are not enough to win over you!" Pete couldn't help but smile and said, he now admires Jia Lei's ability to stretch his temperament.

"I'm not trying to win people's hearts, I just think that I can't program or engage in software, so I can't help in this kind of Internet company, and I can only help you take care of some things in life as much as I can.

I'm working with everyone in the company for the future of the company, so it's not as dirty as you think. Jia Lei said angrily, and then he picked up the incubator on the table and left.

"Boss, where are you going?" asked Pete anxiously, and then he reached for the incubator in Jia Lei's hand.

"You brought me so many flavors of seafood porridge and delicacies, I can't eat them alone! There are so many things in this box, enough for several people to eat, I can just take them to Clark and Anderson to share a point, since everyone is suffering together, of course I can't forget to share the happiness with them!" Jia Lei said very naturally.

Then Jia Lei dodged Pete's hand that he wanted to help and continued to carry the incubator by himself, sending warmth or something to be sincere, this kind of opportunity to please people Jia Lei can't let Pete do.

"Well, boss, didn't you just say that you weren't trying to win people's hearts? Then what are you doing now?" Pete said speechlessly, he felt that Jia Lei's inconsistent behavior was particularly hypocritical.

"Of course, I'm sharing weal and woe with my good brothers now! Winning people's hearts is a word used for subordinates, and sending warmth is done to friends and partners. The nature of these two things is different, at least I don't make people think I'm scheming and want to compete with them for Netscape's rights. Jia Lei paused for a moment and said, after all, Jim Clark was particularly disgusted at the beginning that others had more influence in Netscape than him.

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