"Hello, are you Jason White from Actor Software Inc. to 'dock' with me?" A male student whose laughter sounded a little thin held out to Jason: "I'm Gary Goode of Stanford University's Association for the Advancement of Women's Equality, a social work major. ”

Seeing Jason staring at him stunned, with no intention of shaking hands at all, Gary explained, "Just kidding, that word is a pun. ”

"I know a pun, that's what I hope in my heart when you reach out to you that I'm not the one who came to dock you, I thought it would be a girl." Jason White said in disgust to the man who came up and joked with himself:

"If a girl were to tell me a butt joke, I'd say she's honest, open, and the new female leader, but you're a man, and I'll say, stay away from me, dead!"

Gary laughed disapprovingly, and led Jason towards the training company office space they provided, "I'm not gay, Jason, I'm just trying to make you understand that although we pursue equality for women, most of the time the members can afford to make all kinds of jokes, and they are not always angry. ”

"If a girl stood in front of me and said these things to you, I would cover my mouth happily, and now I cover my mouth, I don't want to vomit out disgustingly, a butt joke between men? Are you sure you haven't stayed in this association for too long and produced some inner changes? Go see a psychiatrist. Jason followed Gary as he approached the four mobile homes, which looked to be teens older than his grandmother:

"Where did you find these relics belonging to the vanished Atlantean period? I saw traces of various ancient languages on the walls. ”

"That's a pee stain, Jason White." Gary reminded from the side.

Jason countered: "It's sarcasm, Gary Goode. ”

Stanford University has a severe shortage of dormitories, and it also requires freshmen to live in on-campus apartments, not rented houses, to ensure that students can reach classrooms and libraries within 10 minutes.

So college freshmen enjoy the best apartment dormitory in the core area, and some of the old students who can't get a normal apartment will live in such a 3.8 meter * 18.3 meter standard mobile board house set up in the core area of the campus if they don't consider going out to live in it, although they have toilets, water supply and electricity, but to put it bluntly, this thing is an RV compartment, and no one wants to be a camper at Stanford University for a few years.

"Nine mobile dormitories were scrapped this year, and our association bought four of them, originally intended to be used as utility rooms, but now they have just been renovated and used as training classrooms." Gary Goode opened the door to one of the dormitories, then immediately backed away and said to Jason, "You can go in and see if there's enough for fifty computers." ”

Jason shook his head decisively: "The purpose of my visit, first, is to inspect the venue, the venue is provided by you, and the computer is provided by us, right?" So you are responsible for hygiene, we will not pay for sanitation and cleaning, I will not go in until the sanitation work is done, the second thing, eight height of one meter seven, blonde, preferably eyes are sea blue, like to wear skirts, have some experience in computers, of course it doesn't matter, mainly girls who meet the first few conditions, leave it to me, I will train them, and then they will train those women who are eager to be employed. ”

Gary asked, a little surprised, "When Reni talked about this, she only said that she hoped that someone in the promotion association would be willing to use her spare time as a training teacher, but she didn't say that...... Appearance constraints. ”

"I added it myself, you're the largest women's campus organization at Stanford, please, it's just some easy conditions to meet." Jason asked Gary in a serious manner.

Gary shrugged: "At the moment, 63% of the members of the Facilitation Council are people of color, and you hope to find eight purebred white beauties in such an organization?" If it is that kind of beauty, countless men line up to pursue her, what equality does she need to pursue? The only one who fits your criteria is called Rennie Moore, Tommy's girlfriend. ”

"OK, it's more relaxed, female, brown or white, gentle, cheerful and beautiful, I don't discriminate against blacks, I just ...... I can't see black women lately, and by the way, these women can't have the word Marcus in their names, thank you. After listening to Gary's words, Jason said a little lost, and then scolded in a low voice:

"I should have known that fucking Tommy Hawk was lying to me!"

Ted drove a golf cart from a distance, and before he could stop, he shouted, "Jason, where's that bastard Tommy?" ”

"Take his golden cat girlfriend for a ride and trick me into coming here to wipe his ass!" Jason scolded unhappily.

"Find him." Ted walked over and looked at Jason, "SSD's legal counsel firm has received a lawyer's letter from as far away as Cambridge, Massachusetts, saying that your Actor-Corporation's software infringes Lotus' computer software copyright. ”

……

When Tommy rushed back, Erik, Ted, Charles, Jason, and several others were already waiting in the café closest to the Brotherhood House, along with SSD's legal counsel.

The reason why I chose this place instead of the Brotherhood House is that the girl Holly Keener will come over later, not a party invitation, and no one can just go in and out of the Brotherhood House.

Actor Computer Software is a software company incorporated by Tommy after receiving 50,000 yuan from the Startup Center, with Tommy owning 70 percent of the shares and Jason and Holly each owning 15 percent.

"Don't worry, Tommy." Seeing Tommy walk in, Charles, the president of the fraternity, stood up and walked over, patted him on the shoulder, and said in as relaxed a tone as possible: "I have told the law firm that the main job in the next step is to help you get through this hurdle, and I will solve the cost. ”

Tommy gratefully said to the other party, "Thank you, Charles, I will return the SSD as soon as I make money." ”

SSD has its own law firm, like Tom Prosk or other members when they first started their business, in order to save money, they all temporarily entrust their legal work to SSD's partner law firm, and the same is true for Tommy's company, but usually at most some consulting issues such as contract terms, like Tommy, he encountered the trouble of being sent a lawyer's letter, which is the first time in two years.

And the opponent is still the software industry famous Lotus company, established only a year and a half, relying on a Lotus 1-2-3 to kill the software industry without opponents, whether it is Microsoft's Multiplan, or minimally invasive CalcStar, and to single-handedly pull up the sales of Apple computers VisiCalc, all of them were cut down by it, in January 1983, the software was officially put on sale, selling 300,000 sets in six months, this number may not seem amazing, But when you multiply it by its unit price of $495, it's terrifying, which means that the company has made nearly $150 million in sales in six months with a single piece of software.

"Tommy's software isn't on sale yet, so how does Lotus know about SSD-2?" After Tommy sat down, Eric was the first to ask, "Strange, isn't it?" It hasn't even finalized an official name yet. ”

"If we didn't commercialize it, wouldn't it save a lot of trouble? Just tell them that we are not selling, just entertaining ourselves and being helpful. Jason White looked at a few people and gave his own thoughts: "Otherwise...... You know that kind of big company is troublesome, I mean, they have the money to keep getting lawyers to come and get trouble, and if we spend the startup fund, or the SSD lawyer consulting fee, we have to close the door, so we can have free software, but the training is charged, and it also makes money. ”

"OfficeSmartSuite, abbreviated as OSS, the first S stands for Stanford, and the second S stands for SSD." After Tommy sat down, he drank his coffee in silence, heard Eric's words, looked at the other party and said with a smile, "What do you think?" ”

"Erik, it's not important to worry about how the other party knows now, what needs to be considered is how to face it, and at the same time, Tommy, I remind you, now is not the time to pay tribute, the other party tells you to stop developing, and hand over all the relevant code and data, you have to tell us, what you think, so that everyone and the lawyer can help you." Seeing that Tommy didn't show any nervousness, Charles cut the topic back to the point and handed Tommy the lawyer's letter in his hand.

Charles has presided over countless meetings and is very good at correcting the problem as soon as the brothers digress, and his words also made several people present look at Tommy Hawke and nod their heads again and again.

Sitting here today, they are all SSD Eric's small circle of brothers who recruit the chairman, the so-called small circle, that is, SSD will also be subdivided into some small groups because of different hobbies and interests, some people like sports activities, some people like business activities, some people like social activities, because of the same hobbies, and there are more opportunities to meet than other brothers, and the relationship is closer.

Tommy didn't even look at the lawyer's letter, but lit a cigarette, anyway, the part-time job in the café is SSD's brother, and the complaint is also deducting his salary, he has seen the part-time brother compare his middle finger to himself, which means that he cares:

"I did copy it, but the code has already been changed, and the other party can still be so excited, with the certainty of victory, because it was misled in some way, isn't Eric curious about how Lotus knows about this software?"

"So?" Charles's eyes lit up.

"I had Holly leak it to them on purpose." Tommy spat out a puff of smoke and looked at the crowd:

"What if the software is going to be marketed and we don't have the money to buy expensive advertising space in those computer magazines? Find the best one to fight, pretend to be a weak and innocent person, and trick some reporters to give us an exclusive interview, if the other party responds...... Let those Harvard and MIT nerds understand that Actor is not a fucking software innovation at all, but as its name suggests, it is focused on every play. ”

The first more ~~

(End of chapter)