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"Half a million dollars?" Matthew and Arthur were also stunned when they heard this offer. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Sanctuary

This is indeed a very tempting offer.

Their first instinct is how much they can get according to the shares.

Immediately afterwards, the other party reacted that the other party was disdainful of SAM's previous performance, why would he pay so much money to buy?

Soon, they got to the point, they didn't buy SAM, after all, this company had just been established and there was nothing to buy at all. What Texas Instruments really bought was the agreement with Stone.

"The agreement is private to stone, and there is no such thing as bundling and selling together." Arthur first raised this question.

"Compression is right." Matthew also nodded, "But even if they can offer a better price, I don't think I should just sell SAM." ”

Torch couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard their words, he didn't expect Matthew to agree to sell the company.

"However, I think this is the most ideal outcome, if we don't agree to their acquisition, they may file a lawsuit in court, and our company will face a copyright lawsuit."

Torch is more inclined to sell the company in his heart, can sell at such a price, of course he knows that Lin Hong's infrared transmission protocol accounts for a large proportion, but from the current situation, SAM company is not selling, he has read the legal document, and feels that once it goes to court, SAM company will be more likely to lose.

What's more, he quit his job, naturally because he was optimistic about the potential of SAM, and now that there is such a good opportunity in front of him, he naturally has to seize it.

"Stone, what do you think?" Torch looked at Lin Hong with an inquiring gaze, his opinion was the most important.

"I'll talk to them first."

Lin Hong did not express his position directly, but walked to the reception area and talked with the two people from Texas Instruments for a while. ("" Net 7*

It's not the first time he's faced with such an acquisition, and he's already had some experience.

This Diana is really as Matthew said, her personality is very arrogant, and she always talks to herself with a condescending attitude, and Lin Hong doesn't like her very much.

Diana's meaning is obvious, thinking that if Texas Instruments does not sue SAM, Lin Hong and they will already worship the Buddha and burn incense, not to mention that they are willing to pay as much as $500,000 for the acquisition, in order to sound better in name.

Diana has dealt with many similar infringement cases, usually on a business basis, in the name of the law to get the other party to stop the infringement.

But this case seems a bit peculiar. After all, SAM is a student start-up company, and the society has a supportive and encouraging attitude towards this type of company, if Texas Instruments sues such a company, it will have a very bad impact on their company, at least it will wear a hat of "bullying the small with the big".

However, Diana has a lot of experience and naturally knows how to deal with such things, so she has developed a complete plan in detail, and she is confident that she can complete the tasks assigned by her boss.

At the beginning, the whole thing went smoothly according to her expectations, but what she didn't expect was a small accident in the middle - the ownership of the infrared transmission protocol, which was most important to her boss, was not in the hands of SAM, but belonged to a private person, that is, the fourteen or fifteen-year-old Asian teenager in front of her.

In order to let the teenager understand the current situation of her company, she re-explained the preparation materials of the accompanying lawyer to the other party, and then asked the other party to give a clear answer immediately.

"I'm sorry." Lin Hong really couldn't stand the other party's semi-threatening way of negotiating, and he didn't want to talk to her, "I can give you an answer now, I have no plans to sell the infrared wireless patent for the time being." ”

Diana, who was still confident just now, couldn't help but change her face after hearing Lin Hong's words.

"I hope you don't make a decision lightly. ""

"It's the result of my careful thinking. Miss Diana, if you want to take SAM to court, then take it easy. But I want to remind you that SAM has never been a very profitable company, and I don't think you want to claim a compensation from our company, right? SAM's main business is currently mainly the CDAD device, and this device is a device of our own invention and has applied for a patent. If there is any infringement involved, it is the SAM Association or my own actions.

As far as I know, there has not been a judgment in a similar case in the legal history of the United States. My original intention in cracking the calculator was not to make a profit, but purely for technical research or interest. ”

After speaking, Lin Hong threw the document in his hand on the coffee table.

Rhys, the lawyer, and Diana looked at each other in amazement.

What Lin Hong said, in fact, they have known for a long time, this is also the key to this case.

I don't know if they have been instructed by a master for a long time or if a blind cat has met a dead mouse, and SAM is involved in things that may violate the law, and it is all done by SAM Association. And the SAM Association itself is a non-profit organization, and it makes no sense to sue the association at all.

They deliberately equated the concepts of the SAM Association and SAM Company before, and this strategy was indeed effective for others in the SAM Company, but they didn't expect this little trick to be completely seen through by the unusually calm teenager in front of them.

Hearing this, Diana clapped her hands lightly and praised: "Amazing, it really deserves to be the core figure of Sam." Mr. Lin, if there is anything that offended you before, please forgive me. You know, these behaviors are normal in business, aren't they? ”

Seeing that Plan A no longer worked, Diana immediately chose Plan B, as if nothing had happened before.

Moreover, Diana's attitude also took a 180-degree turn, and she immediately became polite and understanding, and a smile crawled all over her face.

Her face-changing stunt made Lin Hong a little surprised in his heart.

He found that for the first time, the way he used his intuition to perceive the other party's emotions was deviant, and the performance of the other party just now completely deceived him. What he said before was the result of his discussion with Phyllis, not that he had found out what the other party really thought in his heart.

Lin Hong suddenly felt that the woman in front of him was terrifying, and the other party's acting skills were so superb that even she had deceived herself and completely substituted herself into it.

"A woman's heart, a needle under the sea." The ancients were right, Lin Hong sighed in his heart.

Diana wanted to continue to talk to Lin Hong, and formally proposed to him that she wanted to acquire his infrared wireless agreement, but Lin Hong had no heart to continue talking to her, saying that she still had something to talk about later.

Diana returned in vain this time, but before she left, she made a formal apology to Matthew and them, and quickly won their forgiveness, as if she had forgotten that the other party still wanted to sue them in court before.

This woman's means of communication simply amazed Lin Hong.

Before leaving, Diana reiterated Texas Instruments' idea of acquiring SAM and Lin Hong's infrared protocol patents, and asked them to figure it out before calling her.

In the case of SAM, she proposed a second acquisition at the same price, which could not include the IR Protocol patents, but would have to include the SAM Association, as well as all the current core members.

Texas Instruments' intentions were clear: they wanted to co-opt the SAM Association and bring it under their jurisdiction in order to better serve the company's products.

As for Lin Hong's infrared protocol patent, Diana did not make an offer, but just asked Lin Hong to call her when he figured it out, just saying that Texas Instruments would definitely not let him down.

For money, the more the merrier, Lin Hong thought about it for a while, or decided not to come forward himself, let the professionals do it, and turn back to ask Phyllis to help him find an agent.

The matter of the SAM Association could not be decided for a while, and some people were in favor and some were against, so everyone put the matter aside for the time being and came back to it.

Since the litigation crisis has dissipated invisibly, the contract processing plan of the CDAD device has been put on the agenda, and the torch has begun to call the factory, and there are already a lot of orders in hand, and if there is no production, it is estimated that those users will curse.

After this matter came to an end, Lin Hong remembered his plan for today, so he went to downtown Boston with Arthur to buy books on the Nine Astronomy Network, but he didn't find the books related to the Posix standard.

Lin Hong also asked the owner of the bookstore, and the other party didn't even know what Posix was.

Arthur hadn't heard of this standard either, and when he heard Lin Hong say it was related to Unix, he said that he would help ask his father about it at night.

"POSIX standard?" When Arthur asked about Orlando, the other party was obviously very surprised, "Why did you suddenly ask about this?" ”

"It's Stone who's looking for information on this, he's been working on UNIX lately, you know." Arthur said casually.

"Stone, it seems that your studies have been very deep, which is really good!" Orlando can't help but praise that the average person doesn't know that this standard exists, and only people in the industry will be involved.

"I also learned about this standard from a friend, and I just used it as a reference."

"You can't find them anywhere else, but the MIT library has two collections."

"Really?" Lin Hong was immediately overjoyed, after looking for so long, he finally knew where there was this set of books.

"Of course. I borrowed it when I was doing research. Orlando paused and continued, "Well, I'll go to the school library tomorrow to check out a loan for you, so that you can go directly to MIT's library for any books you want to find, which is a big treasure." ”

"Great!" Lin Hong's mood at the moment can only be described as surprise, "Uncle, thank you so much!" ”

"Hehe, no. I think you should have no problem applying for MIT after you graduate from high school. ”

Lin Hong's excellence, Wei Na and he both saw it, this exchange student from China was the best one they had ever received so many students.