Chapter 797: The contract is finalized
"I'll have to consider hiring an English teacher for you, so don't say a word, Sunny." Li Min lowered his head to Sunny's ear and whispered.
"What are you talking about, am I not standard? I learned English from Pani. Sunny said in a dignified voice. Pani is an American, her English is not standard? ”
"Look at the teacher you're looking for...... Okay, stay quiet, don't talk nonsense in English. Li Min pressed Sunny into the chair and explained to De Simeone and Andy Robin slightly awkwardly.
Neither of them is very calculating in this regard, and De Simeone also speaks a broken Korean word to Sunny to lighten the mood. With a grateful smile, Sunny carefully looked at Li Min's eyes, and began to chat with De Simeone again. Seeing that he couldn't stop Sunny's desire to talk, Li Min had to ask Eunshu to arrange another translator, and with the help of the translator, the communication finally became smooth. To Li Min's surprise, Sunny actually had a good conversation with these two skill masters, and after listening carefully, he realized that they were talking about X-box games. Li Min couldn't laugh or cry, who would have thought that the orientation of the two executives of Google would be the game console developed by Microsoft, and the Internet era is really full of magic.
The three of them chatted enthusiastically, but Li Min couldn't interject. He also enjoyed being idle, listening to their chat and texting at the same time. Li Min always has a lot of text messages coming in his mobile phone, and he doesn't reply because he doesn't have time, and when he has time, he doesn't bother to reply because he is slow to type. However, he will still pick out some more important replies, such as those sent by Kim Tae-hee. If he doesn't reply, the next meeting will probably be miserable, and he will have to reply. Another example is what Li Shanya sent, which is usually serious things, and he has to reply. After a little recovery, text messages became a new annoyance.
It would be nice if you didn't have to type, this thought suddenly appeared in Li Min's head. He was stunned for a moment, and then threw this idea into the corner of his brain first, where there were many strange ideas piled up there, some of which had been piled up for years, all of which Li Min wanted to do but couldn't do. It's like this idea of not having to type words to complete communication. He wanted to do it. But he's not an engineer and can't do it if he wants to. The secret of Li Min's ability to almost do anything over the years is that he doesn't do anything at all.
Time passed slowly during Sunny chatting with two foreigners 'like-minded' and Lee Min Yu-ya replying to text messages, when it was dark. The negotiators began to shake hands one after another. It was not until the last group of actuaries in charge of prices shook hands. Eunshu is a compilation of the results of everyone's negotiations. It became two contracts that needed to be confirmed by both parties.
"Please confirm the terms of the contract as soon as possible." Eun-su handed two identical bilingual contracts in Korean and English to Lee Min and De Simeone respectively, and Andy Robin was in charge of technology on Google's side, and De Simeone was the executive vice president. Both parties are very careful to confirm the terms of the contract verbatim. When it comes to numbers, it's even more serious. This contract not only involves a huge amount of money, but also involves a broader strategic cooperation between Google and Star Electronics in the future. As one of the world's three largest electronic component production bases, the strength of Star Electronics goes without saying. After the United States has gradually fallen into Apple's territory, Google must come out of the United States if it wants to break through the existing framework, and in this case, the importance of Star Electronics is self-evident. It can be said that Google sees the cooperation with DK Technology as a breakthrough to open the door to Star Electronics, and in order to pave the way for future cooperation, everything it does now is even more crucial.
After De Simeone confirmed the contract, he handed it to Andy Robin, who was in charge of the project, and his opinion on the detailed terms was more important. At this time, Li Min also read the contract, which was similar to what he expected, although he made concessions on the price, but in the point of 'open source', his team still won it for him.
This is actually not a very proper thing, in the software industry, if you want to make money, it must involve payment, although the way is not the same, but the essence is the same, making money is the fundamental purpose. Most of the open source of a project is in its development stage, which is done in order to obtain free development power from the private sector. But when it's time for the official release, it's basically not open source.
Android is a mobile phone system, and it also goes this way. The development phase is open source, and interested engineers from all over the world can participate in the work. But if it comes to commercial operation, it is bound to be impossible to open source. This is determined by the profitability of the mobile phone system, a more obvious example is Apple's App Store istore, users need to pay to download the App, and at the same time, engineers must accept the definition and standard of iStore when developing the App. If it's all open source here, then the fees don't exist, and Apple's interests will lose a lot.
If Google develops the Android system for commercial operation, it is impossible to accept open source. However, the contract signed with DK is that Google is only responsible for developing the system, and in short, Google sold the Android project as a product to DK Technology. Open source or not, there is no fundamental interest in Google. It's like the product has been sold, you only need to be responsible for maintaining it, as for whether the person who bought the product threw it away or burned it, it has nothing to do with the person who sold the thing.
Andy Robin confirmed the contract, nodded to De Simeone and said there was no problem, while handing him the contract.
"Happy working together!" De Simeone extended his hand to Li Min, and the two shook each other.
"Happy working together!" Li Min said.
"There is no problem on our side, is the contract signed now or ......? If there is any related activity, please ask, we will do our best to help. "De Simeone has done his homework before coming to South Korea, and he knows that Koreans attach great importance to signing contracts, and they will not be like Americans.
"Thank you, thank you, for the new DK Technology, this signing is indeed very important, and I will prepare a small signing ceremony in a while, so I won't delay too much time. There will be a celebration reception in the evening, everyone has worked hard, please allow me to do a little bit of the friendship of the landlord. ”
Everyone cheered and applauded, looking forward to the evening reception. (To be continued......)