"For what!" Zhou Fulin asked in surprise: "Is there a problem with the contract?" ”

Tu Bin shook his head and said, "There is no problem with the contract itself, but ......"

"But what?" Zhou Fulin asked nervously.

Tu Bin slowly closed the contract text and sighed: "However, the patent of the X-architecture keyboard is not a single technical technique, but a set of technical patents. ”

Saying that, Tu Bin put the contract on the table and said, "You only got the patent for the X-architecture keyboard itself, but what about the patent for the ultra-thin keycaps of the X-architecture keyboard?" What about the patent for the X support foot? What about the patent for the plastic bowl? What about thin film PCB patents? What about insulated contact patents? What about the keyboard tray patent? ”

As he spoke, he spread his hands and continued: "The entire X-architecture keyboard is supported by 13 patents, and it is not enough for you to only get the patent for the X-architecture keyboard......

Zhou Fulin was dumbfounded when he heard this, and muttered to himself: "How can this be, how can this be?" ”

As he spoke, he suddenly stood up and tore up the patent contract, and said angrily: "Bastard, Zhou Shuo, you bastard dare to lie to me, I can't spare you!" ”

"Principal Zhou, congratulations!" Huang Shi clenched his fists, and his smiling eyes were invisible.

"Hehe, Director Huang is happy and happy!" Zhou Shuo put the document in his hand on the table and said with a smile: "Since our request for commissioned development has been agreed, then we can discuss the specific matters next, right?" ”

"No problem, you say." Huang Shi carefully put the documents into a brown paper envelope and placed them respectfully in the filing cabinet.

"Does Director Huang know how the modem works?" Zhou Shuo asked cautiously.

Huang Shi secretly said in his heart, here! When Zhou Shuo said that the equipment for modulating digital signals, he suspected that it was to be a modem, and now it seems that this is indeed the case.

He laughed and said, "Of course I know this, it's not difficult." It is to modulate a digital signal into an analog signal, or to demodulate an analog signal into a digital signal. We've done all of these things in the lab, but we can't do them as well as the Americans. ”

Huang Shi blinked his eyes and said proudly, "Principal Zhou just wants to entrust our sixty-four institutes to develop modem technology, right?" As he spoke, he patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, with the ability of our sixty-four institutes, it's still no problem to copy a 28.9Kbps modem." ”

Zhou Shuo shook his head when he heard this, and said, "I hope that the 64th Institute will develop a broadband modem with a transmission speed of at least 2Mbps or more. ”

"What?" Huang Shi was dumbfounded: "What is the use of a 2Mbps modem?" The terminal rate of telephone network transmission is 64Kbps, which cannot be accommodated even by the high line. ”

"This modem is not intended for use on the telephone network." Zhou Shuo said with a smile.

Huang Shileng said: "Where is that used......"

Zhou Shuo spread his hands and said: "The truth is not obvious, and the popular network is not the only telephone network. “

Huang Shi held his head and said, "Principal Zhou, let's just say it, I really can't keep up with your train of thought." ”

Zhou Shuo shook his head with a smile, and said helplessly: "Okay, I'll just say it directly." This modem is required to be used on a cable network. ”

"Cable Network!" Huang Shi patted his head and said suddenly: "Yes, the bandwidth resources of the cable TV network are much larger than the telephone network!" Hi, I'm so stupid! ”

Zhou Shuo hurriedly waved his hand and said, "If Director Huang is stupid, there will be no smart people in the world." It's all a layer of window paper, and that's what happens when it's pierced. ”

Seeing Huang Shi staring at him, he had no choice but to continue: "As opposed to the twisted pair modem of the telephone network, I call it a cable modem." It should utilize the 5 to 42 MHz band as the uplink channel and the 650 to 750 MHz band as the downlink channel. The uplink and downlink speed should be above 2Mbps, with a certain routing function, and the LAN speed should reach 10Mbit/s. ”

"That's too high, isn't it?" Huang Shi said with some embarrassment.

If it is a 28.9Kbps telephone network modem, because the design and system are mature, there is no risk in copying it. But if a new cable modem with a minimum transmission speed of 2Mbps is developed, where are the ready-made examples to follow?

"In this way, I'll give Director Huang two choices." Zhou Shuo stretched out two fingers and said: "The first one, 500,000 development costs, and I will lead the development of the sixty-four network laboratories for one year. Whether it succeeds or not, the 500,000 is yours. Second, I give you a certain amount of technical support, and I will pay you a development fee of 200,000 yuan for every month of successful development before 1996. What do you think? ”

Huangshi is entangled now, the first choice is safe, whether it is successful or not, there will be 500,000 pockets. But the second one is too tempting, if it is successfully developed two months in advance, wouldn't it immediately catch up with the first plan? How do you choose!

After thinking about it for a long time, Huang Shi gritted his teeth, stomped his feet, and said with all his strength: "I choose-choose-plan one!" ”

Saying this, Huang Shi burst into tears in his heart, as if he saw bundles of small money with wings......

"Okay." Zhou Shuo sighed in his heart.

Huang Shi is indeed not a pioneer and enterprising person, but this is the reason why he has been able to maintain the 64th Institute into the 21st century. At least he still has the ability to keep it, and only if an organization survives can he talk about anything else.

Zhou Shuo looked at Huangshi's dejected appearance, and asked tentatively, "Then let's sign the contract?" ”

When it came to signing the contract, Huang Shi immediately became energetic again, gritted his teeth and said: "Sign, sign immediately!" ”

At the same time as Zhou Shuo, there were twelve young researchers from the sixty-four software rooms who were in a high position, and their expressions were excited, apprehensive, and seemingly indifferent, and they sat at the long table in the conference room one by one, and wrote their names on the contract.

Shao Shiming stood in front of the conference room, and when he saw that they had all signed their names, he clapped his hands. "On behalf of Six Ears Software, I welcome you to join us, and I'm sure you'll be very glad you made that choice. ”

Probably just made a decision that will affect a lifetime, and everyone is a little listless. Shao Shiming shook his head and said with a smile: "In order to reflect the superiority of the company, the company assures everyone that it will raise salaries by 15% every year!" This policy is guaranteed to be unwavering for 20 years! ”

Ooh! This ignited everyone's enthusiasm, and the salary increased by 15% a year, which is 20 years in a row......

Soon someone calculated: "Thirty-two thousand seven hundred and thirty-three? Oh my God, I can earn 30,000 yuan a month! ”

"It can't be, right?"

"Pinch me, am I dreaming?"

Shao Shiming looked at their excited appearance, and he was also smiling bitterly in his heart. When Zhou Shuo proposed this idea to him, he was also very frightened. In 1994, a salary of 2,000 yuan was already difficult to find, and it still maintained an annual growth rate of 15%, and foreign companies did not say this.

This was still Zhou Shuo's forced request, so he had to accept it. Where did Shao Shiming know that if he could hire a programmer with 20 years of programming experience after 20 years. Wait, as long as any programmer has a long brain, it is impossible to work as a programmer for 20 years.

In short, such a group of people, based on their achievements twenty years later, if their monthly income is only 33,000 yuan, they must be embarrassed to say hello to their classmates, colleagues, and friends in the same period......

Shao Shiming clapped his hands, focused everyone's attention, and said, "Okay, our focus in the next period of work will be this project." ”

As he spoke, he turned on the projector, revealing a structural diagram on the screen.

"We already have a basic program for instant messaging software based on peer-to-peer networks, and we have to come up with a commercial product within two months."

"Isn't there e-mail for network communication? What is the usefulness of this software? If you need instant communication, just calling. A researcher asked, raising his hand.

From the researchers' point of view, this is true, because before 1996, when Inghaiway began to promote the Internet in China, most of the Internet users were scientific researchers and a small number of commercial users. In terms of the needs of these two types of users, email can really meet their needs.

Shao Shiming shook his head and said: "We are not developing for the Chinese Internet, and the patents involved in this software have been widely registered in the world. After the development is completed, it will be put into operation in the U.S. first, and the use needs must be considered based on the situation in the U.S. Of course, this does not mean that the software is only available in English, but in German, French, Italian, and Japanese, and we will develop a version for most countries in the future. ”

Speaking of which, this is a lesson in history, and none of the three Israelis who first developed network communication software remembered to apply for a patent or develop an international version. Of course, the software itself cannot be patented, only copyright. However, the method of implementing the function is patentable.

For example, the code of the ICQ program is protected by copyright, but if someone changes or optimizes it to a certain extent, as long as it exceeds the scope of copyright protection, then it will not constitute infringement.

"A system for monitoring who's on the network, and if you want to communicate with other people, you can get in touch with them." This method of achieving a function is patentable.

Of course, if they really did that.

Well, Microsoft will fight to pay royalties and continue to develop MSN's ......