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Lin Hong had just found the POSIX standard and took it down, but he happened to see a strange person he had seen at the door before in the hole.

Through the book hole, the other party smiled at Lin Hong.

Lin Hong had no choice but to nod his head.

The strange man walked around from the side, his gaze stayed on the posix standard in Lin Hong's hand, and his eyes seemed to be very strange for Lin Hong to borrow this set of books.

"Hello, I'm Richard Stallman," the weirdo took the initiative to introduce himself to Lin Hong.

"Hello." Lin Hong paused, and then added, "Stone." ”

"You've heard of posix before?"

"Yes. I learned about this set of books from a friend, and I searched for a long time before I found it here. ”

After all, the two were not familiar with each other, they just met by chance in the library, after Lin Hong answered each other's questions, he held the books and came to the reading room on the side of the library.

Lin Hong first took a general look at the "POSIX Standard" and found that the content in it is indeed very detailed, specifying in detail the APIs of a series of application software under the UNIX system, of course, including system calls.

There are too many contents in these four books, and Lin Hong does not plan to implement all the commands in these four books, but after a quick glance at the table of contents, he selectively selects some chapters to watch.

He didn't take notes, but decided to memorize them all and think back to them when he returned.

Lin Hong is confident that he can do this, and memory has always been his strength.

Richard observed from the side for a while, and finally took advantage of Lin Hong to change the Nine Astronomy)"

"Can you tell me what these standards are for?"

"Well, my friend and I were planning to write a simple operating system, and I heard that there were a lot of Unix-compatible API standards on Posix, so I came here."

Lin Hong could feel that the other party seemed to be very curious about himself in his heart.

"Write your own operating system?" Richard didn't expect Lin Hong's answer to be this, and after being slightly stunned, he suddenly sighed, "This is really a great ideal!" However, it is too difficult to redesign and implement an operating system. We've been working on this for several years, but the kernel of the system hasn't been able to live up to its requirements. ”

Confirming his inner guess, Richard sat down beside Lin Hongdi.

He officially introduced himself to Lin Hong this time, including his own life and what he had done before, which is the way he always uses when talking to others.

Obviously, he did it very effectively.

Listening to the other party, Lin Hong knew that the middle-aged man in front of him, who was called a weirdo, was actually the founder of the GUN project!

It was he who drafted and published the famous "GNU Manifesto".

In other words, the POSIX standard also appeared under his initiative, and the GPL (GNU General Public License) was also written by him.

This can't help but make Lin Hong sigh, there are really many masters in MIT, such a maverick weirdo, is actually the most famous father of free software in the hacker world!

Lin Hong heard from Zuo Shou that this person often promoted free software to others, and thought that he was just a supporter of free software, but he didn't expect that he was the founder of this field, and he was really a person with personality.

Richard was obviously very happy to see that Lin Hong had heard of free software, since 1985 he had been like a preacher, preaching his free software ideas to everyone, and now even a teenager has heard of his GUN project, which is indeed a happy thing.

Richard then asked Lin Hong what he thought of free software, and Lin Hong had no opinion on it, he thought that both free software and commercial software were good, and as long as the commercial software was good enough, he was willing to pay for it. Templar

Unexpectedly, this point of view was refuted by Richard for a while. To say that such an idea is unacceptable, it is an indulgence of those commercial companies that allow them to grow.

"All software should be copied and shared freely, we must understand every detail of the software, otherwise, non-open source software will make us defree!"

"Our society is becoming more and more dependent on computers, and the software we use is essential to guarantee the freedom of our future society. Free software allows us to control the technology we use for the benefit of individuals and society, rather than for technology to be controlled by commercial corporations or governments to restrict or spy on us......"

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Richard was a little excited to sell his idea to Lin Hong.

Seeing him like this, the surrounding students moved away from the area, until, "missionary" Richard, began to spread his free software religion to others again.

"Software is inherently free, the earliest hackers spread their software in their own small circles, but some people can't resist the temptation of money, and begin to restrict others from copying software, if you want to use software, you have to pay an expensive fee, which is definitely not the original intention of software to be invented! ……”

In Richard's view, software patents and the encryption and non-disclosure of software code are obstacles to the software industry and go against the spirit of software freedom.

Lin Hong found that Richard seemed to have a special contagious power, which could make the audience's thinking involuntarily follow his train of thought and thus identify with his ideas.

"Shouldn't programmers get paid to spend a lot of time writing software?" Lin Hong thought for a while and asked.

It was obviously not the first time that Richard had dealt with such a problem, and he immediately replied:

"Absolutely. But instead of selling code to get paid, it's about providing quality services. In other words, there is a shift from being centered on selling code to being centered on selling services. Look, by the end of this century or the beginning of the next century, the software industry will definitely change dramatically, and free software will be fully revived! ”

Selling services?

Lin Hong said he couldn't understand what he meant.

"Software freedom is human freedom!" Richard stated his main point, "If we don't want to lose our freedom completely, we have to develop free software." Software code is not just a commercial product, but more importantly, it is part of human freedom. If we are to defend freedom, we must support free software. You can use closed-source software, but you should support free software, because without it, there would be no freedom for us, not only in the future, but now. ”

Software Freedom = Human Freedom? That's it now?

This seemingly ridiculous equation, and the last sentence, made Lin Hong have a lot of associations.

He thought of the SAS system, he thought of the Aurora system, he thought of the people who might be being spied on...... At the same time, I also thought of my own bit messenger software.

Maybe one day, when people's lives and computer software are inseparable, this equation will really make sense, right?

At that time, the government ruled over the rest of the people not by violent agencies, by the police, but by software.

Immediately after, his heart moved, could it be that Richard also knew something?

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After Diana returned to the company, she was severely criticized by her boss, because she not only failed to complete the task, but also offended the members of SAM's company.

The key figure Stone has so far refused to sell them the infrared patents in his hands, which must have something to do with Diana's previous actions.

Diana was very depressed about this.

Her approach can't be said to be wrong, in the business field, the emphasis is on not getting tired of cheating, and in order to achieve the goal, everyone is all kinds of means are endless. Her strategy is perfectly fine, and she usually buys small companies, and sometimes she does do that. The mistake she made was that she didn't fully understand the specifics of SAM.

Diana could never have imagined that such a small company could be so complex, not only divided into associations and companies, but also that the patents for key technologies were still in the hands of private individuals, which was the main reason for the failure of her operation.

In a depressed mood, Diana went to a Blue Mountain café that she often went to, the Blue Mountain coffee here is the most authentic, I heard that it was flown directly from Brazil, Diana liked the taste of Blue Mountain coffee.

She found a window seat, then ordered a cup of original Blue Mountain coffee as usual, and then quietly looked out the window thinking about her thoughts, wondering how to buy the infrared patent from the Chinese teenager at a price that satisfied her boss.

"Hi Diana, what a coincidence."

A middle-aged man in a professional suit came to Joanna's side and greeted her warmly.

This man's name is Miller, and he works at Intel, and Diana used to work with each other, so they know each other.

"yes, that's a coincidence." Diana had a professional smile on her face.

"Can I sit here?" Miller asked gentlemanly.

"Feel free." Diana looked around, it is true that there are only more vacancies here, not to mention that the other party is also an acquaintance, although she wants to be quiet at the moment, but she is likely to have to deal with each other in the future, and naturally she will not offend others with her temperament.

After Miller also ordered a cup of coffee, he casually asked:

"How's it going?"

"So-so." Diana said perfunctorily.

"You don't seem to be very happy today, it's not like your character. Is there anything you're unhappy about at work? You might as well say it, and you might feel better. I think I'll be a qualified listener. ”

"It's okay, little thing. It's just that a patent acquisition case was not negotiated, and I was just reprimanded by the boss. ”

"Oh? Isn't that a normal thing? We run outside every day, and the boss should be considerate of us. If you haven't talked about it, you can continue to talk. Miller said along Diana's train of thought.

"Two days ago, I went to Boston to complete an acquisition case from the boss......"

Diana slowly told Miller about her journey of failure, although it was only a simple narrative, and she felt that she was indeed much better in her heart, and she was not as depressed as before.

However, what she didn't notice was that Miller's eyes lit up at that moment when she heard her talk about the specific parameters and performance of the infrared wireless protocol used by SAM.