Yes, change the world.

This time Zhang Chen really wasn't fooling.

Rhetoric is not something that everyone is qualified to say.

Along the way, after so many twists and turns, to this extent, Zhang Chen is finally qualified to say: change the world with me.

Zhang Chen's current personal net worth, even if you don't count Matrix-Apple's shares, is close to 10 billion. The amount of liquid assets available in his hands is close to 5 billion US dollars, and even the top 10 richest people in the world may not have more liquid assets at their disposal than Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen has now become a truly top billionaire in the world.

It is often said that when there is so much money that there is only one symbol left. If he only focuses on personal consumption, it may be true, and it will not cost more than 5 billion. But if you really want to change the world, these five billion can only take one or two steps on the road to changing the world.

GitHub is Zhang Chen's first step in changing the world in the true sense.

If a country wants to develop rapidly, infrastructure construction is indispensable. Similarly, the software industry, which only has virtual code, also needs its own infrastructure in order to enter a period of rapid development, and GitHub is the infrastructure of the software industry.

The software industry flourished in the 80s and 90s. Especially in the field of open source, Stallman has pioneered the creative licensing model of copyleft. With the dedication of hundreds of thousands of software developers, countless excellent open source codes have provided a solid foundation for the entire software industry, among which the most prestigious is the father of Linux, Linnestois.

As soon as Linux was born, it became the most popular open source operating system code in the world, and countless developers carried out a series of research and development around Linux.

When Jobs first returned to Apple, he wanted to join forces with Linus and adopt the Linux kernel in Apple's new OS operating system. If this is done, Apple's new OS will not only have better performance and performance, but will also curb the monopoly of indos in many areas, dealing a heavy blow to Microsoft.

But both of them are geniuses with strong personalities, and due to their different philosophies, there was a serious disagreement on the authorization method of Apple's kernel, so they could only break up unhappily.

Zhang Chen went to Finland several times, in addition to arranging the shorting of Rakshasa, he also had many secret meetings with Linus.

Zhang Chen had no intention of convincing Linus to join the Matrix, a person like Linus was an outright idealist. Even if he wasn't, he was put on the moral high ground and couldn't get down, and it was impossible to make compromises. Asking such a great god to go back is purely to cause trouble for himself.

Zhang Chen's purpose is to build GitHub.

In the process of learning Linux, Zhang Chen often goes to some free or free software discussion boards to find out if there is any ready-made code. However, due to the small scale of each discussion board and the use of different code bases, it brought a lot of trouble to Zhang Chen.

Although Zhang Chen had no systematic contact with programming in his previous life, he had a lot of friends with code farmers around him, and he also had a little experience, and he couldn't help but recall the two websites that these friends often visited when they had problems - google and GitHub.

Needless to say, when program apes encounter bugs, the first action must be to open Google and find the cause of the bug. And before the bug was found, this code might have been merged from some god's repository on GitHub.

GitHub is essentially an open-source code hosting platform where every programmer can host their code in a unified format and share it with everyone.

It can be said that GitHub has greatly liberated the productivity of programmers and fundamentally changed the way the software industry works and works efficiently.

However, it is such a platform that is so important to the software industry, but now it does not even have a prototype, which really surprised Zhang Chen.

In fact, in this era, both free software and free software are in the stage of savage growth, the development environment is not friendly, and it is difficult to get the support of large companies, such as Microsoft, for the sake of their own survival, they spare no effort to suppress the development of free software, and do not realize the huge value of open source.

In the previous life, it was not until 10 years later in 08 that GitHub really came out, replacing the controversial bitkeeper as the largest open-source codebase hosting platform.

Ten years, what if GitHub came out ten years earlier? And that's what the current technology is capable of.

This is Zhang Chen's best chance.

The best chance to stop Microsoft from monopolizing the operating system.

The reason why open source systems are not popular with ordinary users is nothing more than the lack of supporting software, poor ease of use, inconsistent code base, and low system performance due to poor level of amateur developers.

These problems can be solved by Matrix-Apple and GitHub.

Of course, Zhang Chen has no belief in open source or not, and supports open source, in addition to this is a necessary step to realize his ultimate ideal, there are also practical business considerations.

As for what is the ultimate ideal? Hehe, Zhang Chen will not say it until it is almost realized.

Apple's kernel has always been semi-open source, after Zhang Chen's rebirth, the new MacOS will be integrated into part of the Linux kernel, the more Linux developers, the more powerful the development environment, the more powerful MacOS will be, the more complete the entire ecosystem, and the more likely it is to replace indos.

Microsoft Headquarters, Redmond, Seattle.

"This is ridiculous!" Bill Gates turned off the TV angrily with a flushed face, "What bullshit open source! This is a blatant contempt for intellectual property rights! It is destroying the foundation of the entire software industry! Jobs is a blatant betrayal! I should not have given him that billion dollars in aid in the first place!"

"Don't be so angry, Bill, it's not a big deal. Steve Ballmer shook his bald head, "It's not a bad thing for us, especially now. If you think about it, if we don't have any competitors, it's even harder for the Commerce Department to deal with it. Isn't it because of this damn antitrust investigation that we haven't released in98 yet?"

Bill Gates calmed down and touched his lips, Microsoft is indeed too powerful now, so strong that it has no opponents, and Netscape, which was originally a little worried, now seems to be vulnerable.

Microsoft's biggest crisis is the anti-monopoly investigation that has lasted for two years, and it was a billion dollars to renew Apple's life, also because if Apple is finished, then Microsoft will have a solid monopoly position, and the possibility of being split will be greatly increased.

What a damn antitrust!

"Ten years of experience has taught us that the people who shout the spirit of free software are just a rabble, and no one wants to use their buggy software, which poses no threat to us and can reduce the attention of the Department of Commerce to Microsoft, so why not? Ballmer said nonchalantly.

Bill Gates leaned back in his chair, his eyes closed.

"In May at the latest, I'm going to see the release of the in98 before Apple releases a new operating system. Gates snapped his eyes open, his gaze determined, "We can't give our competitors any respite, especially Jobs, no one knows him better than me, as long as he is given a chance, he can complete a Jedi counterattack." ”

Ballmer opened his mouth: "But, the Commerce Department。。。。。。 ”

"Leave the Commerce Department alone. Gates interrupted Ballmer's questioning and took a breath, "Next month, I'll be stepping down as CEO of Microsoft." ”

Gates looked at Ballmer, who looked expectant: "Steve, you're here to take over." ”

It's so much called Steve!

(End of chapter)