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Chapter 201 Saminc asks for a monthly pass at the end of the month

Seeing the conversations of the other members in the chat room, Lin Hong remembered the nine-day astronomy called "Hackers" that he had read before)

At that time, a group of pure hackers began to germinate business sense, and they gradually commercialized their technology and products, and continued to push the technology forward while earning corresponding compensation. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and this kind of behavior is considered by traditional veteran hackers to violate the basic ethics of hackers' pursuit of "freedom" and "free", so they no longer recognize that part of the hackers are hackers.

However, the trend seems so unstoppable that the author of the book ended up devoting a chapter to "The Last Hacker" to the last MIT professor who adhered to the ethics of early hacking.

Lin Hong didn't expect that such a small club as the SAM Association would also encounter this problem.

Seeing Matthew asking for his opinion, Lin Hong was suddenly a little embarrassed.

Is it true that the two are irreconcilable?

He didn't want to see a split in the SAM association, but it now seemed inevitable.

He sighed, and finally replied:

Stone: Both methods of operation have their own advantages. We are brought together because of interest, and no one can force anyone to do something he doesn't want to do. Since there are two voices, let's split them into two.

After Lin Hong's words were issued, no one spoke in the chat room for a long time.

Everyone understood what Lin Hong meant.

In fact, they were all waiting for Lin Hong's opinion before, because it was his cracking project that led to the birth of this association, and it was his important contribution that the association would develop so rapidly. Therefore, they all think that Lin Hong's opinion is very important, and maybe if he is on which side, which side will get everyone's final support.

However, no one expected that Lin Hong would support the split of the SAM Association. "" net

At first, everyone was shocked and thought that they could not accept this proposal, but when they thought about it, they thought that it was a good idea.

Stone: I hope that even if we are separated, we can actively cooperate with each other as before, and the two parts complement each other and help both sides develop. I'm not going to join any of them for the time being, and as a free man, if there's anything I can do to help, I can help.

This matter was settled.

Arthur, Left Hand, and Atom continue to keep the SAM Association running, while Matthew, Torch, and Kisson decide to form a company and start selling related products with CDAD as its main product.

After Matthew and the others leave, the SAM Association will continue to attract members and grow stronger. It will also focus on establishing branches in other schools across the United States to expand the association's influence.

After the meeting, Arthur came to Lin Hong's room.

"I didn't expect it to turn out like this." Arthur was in a somewhat depressed mood. Matthew is his best friend, and the two of them are now getting into a bit of an unpleasant quarrel over the association.

"Arthur, something can't be avoided." Lin Hong comforted, "Everyone has their own choice, and there is no right or wrong in this matter." Don't let that affect your friendship either. I think Matthew can figure this out too. The company he wants to start, we should support him. After all, this is the company that went out from our SAM. We should continue to run the SAM Association, and hopefully more companies will come out of it. ”

"Well, you're right!" Hearing Lin Hong's words, Arthur felt much better, "I thought about this matter a little seriously before. I'll have a good talk with Matthew. ”

The next day, Arthur took the initiative to find Matthew, and the two had a good chat about this matter, and the previous mustard was quickly eliminated. Arthur no longer feels obsessed with Matthew** going out to start a company.

Due to the reconciliation between Arthur and Matthew, the SAM Association is not actually divided, but is divided into two parts, one part is dedicated to the association, and the other part relies on the association to run the company, and the two complement each other and promote each other. (《》网)

In the afternoon, everyone went to the electronics market to look for a merchant willing to take over the renovation of the calculator.

Boston's electronics market is located in a large mall with hundreds of wholesale and retail merchants of all kinds of electronic products.

Lin Hong and the others did not directly indicate their purpose at first, but listened to the side and first learned about the market situation, and found that the flash memory and memory prices of the calculator here were much cheaper than the ones they had purchased before, at least three dollars.

In the end, they managed to find a suitable partner to outsource all the processes to the other party for a total fee of $27, including the cost of the parts.

Originally, the other party said that it could be done for only $25, but in order to ensure the success rate, each calculator added an additional two dollars, and if the calculator was damaged, they were responsible for compensation.

The two sides agreed that tomorrow at three o'clock in the afternoon, they would drive to the Latin School to pick up the goods.

In addition, they also learned a little about the market for the production of CDAD equipment components, but they did not purchase them for the time being.

The next thing is to start preparing for the establishment of the company, Lin Hong and Arthur did not participate in it, and let Matthew and Pissen go to work.

Eventually, Matthew settled on the name of the company as "Saminc."

It's as simple as that, there are no other prefixes and suffixes.

In the evening, the members of the association had another communication.

Although this company is from the association, after it is established in the future, it will appear as a ** organization and does not belong to the SAM association. Of course, there will definitely be a very close cooperation between the two sides.

Since you want to start a company and want to produce products, of course, you need start-up capital.

Although CDAD equipment is not very expensive, it is not something that one person can afford if there are many of them.

Matthew means to set up a partnership, and SAM internal members can be given priority if they want to take shares. The SAM Association can take a certain stake in the form of technology shares, after all, their CDAD product is from the SAM Association.

In addition to this, because the infrared protocol used was written by Lin Hong, and he has a patent in this area.

Previously, it was used for non-profit purposes, so there was no problem at all. But now, if a company is set up to sell such products, Matthew proposes that there are two ways to reciprocate. One is to give Lin Hong a certain licensing fee for each CDAD device generated, and the other way is to count this as a certain percentage of technology shares.

Originally, Lin Hong didn't care about this, and said that he could authorize SAM to use it for free, but Matthew didn't accept it, he said that in business, it would be better to calculate clearly.

In fact, Matthew only insisted on it, mainly because SAM could not do without everyone's support, especially Lin Hong, without his technology as a backing, SAM is unlikely to develop and grow.

In addition, if you want to become a partner, you must invest a certain amount of money, and then calculate the shares according to the proportion.

Originally, Matthew thought that this matter was a good thing, and if nothing else, it should definitely be able to make money, but as soon as this plan was proposed, the "atom" and the "left hand" first stated that they would not invest in the shares, on the one hand, there was not much money, and on the other hand, the reason was that they were in other places, which was not very convenient.

The final distribution ratio is like this.

SAM is a 15% stake in the company, and the association's dividends will be used to maintain normal operating expenses in the future.

Matthew, Kisson and Torch each contributed $3,000 each, accounting for 25%, 20% and 20% of the shares.

The reason why Matthew has 5% more shares than them is mainly because he was one of the original founders of SAM.

Correspondingly, Lin Hong and Arthur also received 5% of the founder's shares respectively.

In addition, Lin Hong's infrared patent authorization is also counted as a 10% stake as a technology shareholding, so that Lin Hong has a total of 15% of the shares.

Normally, Arthur is not involved in the operation of SAM. However, the SAM Association and SAM will share information, and if either party needs technical support, they can ask the other party for help.

As the fourth largest shareholder of SAM, Lin Hong will naturally assume certain responsibilities and need to provide technical support for SAM at critical times.

In addition, Matthew will officially resign as president of the SAM Association and hand it over to Arthur, but he is still a member of the SAM Association, helping with some tasks that Arthur is not capable of.

After this matter has been decided, Matthew officially began to prepare for the production of CDAD equipment as the head of SAM. In order to save money, Sam's office is located in the garage of Matthew's home.

The initial funding was $9,000 at their own expense. In order to facilitate the connection to the host computer in the SAM activity room, Matthew temporarily contributed his computer and placed it directly in the garage.

The torch is located far away in California and can only be communicated by phone or chat.

He said he would come immediately on weekends and would quit his job to devote himself full-time to SAM if he needed to. In addition, he helped to purchase a batch of electronic components for the production of CDAD, such as infrared transceivers, at a very favorable price.

SAM's first order was a bonus of 40 CDAD equipment that had been ordered for the Latin School.

Fortunately, there has been a successful experience in production before, the assembly and production of CDAD equipment is going very smoothly, and, this time, because it is officially sold to the outside world, playing the brand of SAM company, Torch also specially found a friend who produces abrasives, and specially designed a set of very beautiful shell abrasives, at the price of 1 US dollar, first booked a hundred sets of shells, and the payment can be settled within a month.

In this way, the first batch of a total of forty CDAD products was born in the garage with the hard work of Lin Hong and the four of them.