This embarrassment faced by Wanhu is almost fatal. However, such a fatal problem is not without a solution.

And the solution to this dilemma starts with the birth of programmers.

The original birth of the programmer profession was not actually oriented towards commercial purposes. Except for computer science researchers in high-end labs, the vast majority of the remaining folk programmers are wild and savagely grown.

Write a program that implements a function. Even if it's just typing in Auntie and writing a "Hello, World". It's a very rewarding thing.

Although the price of a computer is not two, it is not expensive for the vast majority of Americans.

Programming is even one of the least expensive and most rewarding things compared to other recreational activities.

Writing a program can reap a sense of accomplishment, and the written software, after being copied and disseminated again and again, is used by many people, and this sense of accomplishment is even more overwhelming.

In the end, these programmers may have entered a large company to work in a large company because of the development of the computer industry, relying on their programming ability, but their share of writing their own Xie Huan's code, looking at their favorite functions, and loving to see others using their own software are still there.

With the gradual development of the Internet, these people have created open source communities in front of them.

In the open source community, there is not only free code and software, but also the ability of everyone to improve the functionality of a software. There are also a variety of free study materials.

Even, open source bigwigs think that with the existence of the open source community, anyone can be a programmer.

Anyone can become a programmer, and naturally the writing of software is easier, and the spread of software is faster.

For example, those large software commercial companies can no longer continue to use free knowledge for fees.

That's right, those large software business companies mainly refer to Microsoft.

Microsoft is a company born in capital.

Its initial technology may not be good, and MSDOS, which is bundled with IBM compatible machines, is a common occurrence of crashes when used.

However, Microsoft's system is the most efficient, though not the best to use. However, with its built-in advantages, it has successfully become the largest operating system on the market.

And with such a large number of operating systems, they are starting to sell their office suites and even browsers again.

It would be forgiven for saying that the technology was not good, but it would be unbearable for them to charge a very high fee for every feature.

In the open source community, almost every open source developer regards Microsoft as an enemy.

They are very disgusted by Microsoft's behavior, and they believe that Microsoft is ruining the entire computer software industry.

Should I charge for electronic software?

You shouldn't be charged!

Based on the whole basic contradiction, Microsoft's entire company, which takes the pursuit of profit as its first priority, can be said to be on the same page as the open source community.

However, although Microsoft's programmers are not very capable, Microsoft's sales are very strong.

The software that paid for it went to the government and the enterprises.

Even many people who are new to computers think that the office suite is the Microsoft suite, and the browser is the Internet Explorer browser.

Microsoft's great commercial success naturally gives them the strength to deal with the open source community.

If you want to get rid of the embarrassing situation of too little software and no software available, it seems that as long as you cooperate with the open source community, you will turn defeat into victory.

Because what Wanhu lacks is software, and what the open source community lacks is a platform.

However, there is a problem involved.

In this way, if the system of 10,000 households is charged, if the software of 10,000 households is charged. What is the difference between Wanhu and Microsoft?

Software developers in the open source community, why should they cooperate with Wanhu?

Therefore, if you want to cooperate with the open source community, you must be free.

For Microsoft, making systems is Microsoft's top priority and their core business. Naturally, it is impossible to say that free is free.

However, the situation of 10,000 households is different, and the suggestion of free is not unacceptable.

After all, Wanhu's core business is game development, game publishing, and hardware manufacturing.

As long as these three pillars do not fail, the operating system business should not lose too much money.

And what kind of benefits will occupy the market bring to 10,000 households?

After careful evaluation, they decided to make their system "free".

However, this "free" is not the same as the real free.

The operating system of Wanhu can be downloaded for free on the Internet, but at the current download speed, it will take until the Year of the Monkey to download an operating system.

Therefore, the main sales channel of the operating system must also be offline channels.

And as long as it is an offline channel, there will definitely be a cost.

The cost of floppy disks, optical discs, transportation costs, warehouse management costs, production costs, sales costs, etc.

Therefore, Wanhu finally decided to adjust the price of the real version of the operating system at about the cost price, which is about 30 US dollars.

For users who have purchased the operating system in close to the actual dollar, the user can get the game compensated by 10,000 households, or directly choose to go to the store to exchange the operating system for money.

At the same time, Wanhu also published a development letter in the open source community.

He said that he would invest the benefits of all operating systems in education.

Cultivating and educating related computer science and technology talents.

As for why not charity, because charity is not a good word in open source circles.

You must know that people with a little level of cultural knowledge know that the charity engaged in by the rich is a kind of fake charity, a means of tax avoidance, and a kind of hypocrisy.

There is no need for Wanhu to maintain the purity of these two words, so Wanhu only talks about exchanging profits for education.

After all, although you can learn on your own, the difficulty curve of learning is too high.

If you don't have a high level of interest, if you don't have a true love for computers, it's hard to stick to it.

The teacher's teaching is very important, but everyone knows very well what the education fee looks like in the United States.

Higher education may be possible, but it may not be affordable.

Therefore, Wanhu plans to open a welfare educational institution, where anyone who is interested in programming can come and learn.

And this can be regarded as the contribution of the open source community.

Wanhu Mali's actions and sincere emotions have reaped the emotions of programmers in the open source community.

The application software on the operating system of 10,000 households is increasing day by day.

While most of these apps are free, some of them are available in a donated version.

If you think the software is not bad, you can support the maker of the software. And Wanhu does not take a cut for this kind of behavior.