In the garage, Jason bites a straw, stares at the computer screen, and follows Tommy's prompts to do some software tweaking work for Tommy.

Tommy was holding a piece of pasta, and at this time he devoured it into his mouth, and said to Jason vaguely as he swallowed: "Professor Simmons said that there is an exam next week, you better hurry, Jason, we still have a bunch of homework to review when we go back." ”

Jason spit out the straw, kept tapping the keyboard in his hand, and scolded hatefully in his mouth: "What a warm roommate reminder, this intimate tone almost made me forget who caused me to become this ghost, man, I was almost tricked by a stupid* to make a small movie in order to help you, you know, it's the kind of one-day movie that is rougher and more violent than the small movie of the adult pay channel, even low-level prostitutes will not participate, only poisonous insects and stowaways are willing to appear in an artistic job, yes, artistic work." ”

A one-day movie is a kind of adult small movie, a paid small movie played on TV, only showing the upper body, and ensuring that the male protagonist is strong and handsome, and the heroine has a graceful figure and a delicate face, and there will be a complete plot and beautiful framing.

And the kind of one-day movie that Marka asked Jason to shoot is a pure AV product that directly distributes videotapes, changing actors without changing scenes, or changing scenes without changing actors, in short, many films can be shot in a day, and the requirements for the appearance of actors are much lower than those small TV movies.

It is for this reason that Jason White couldn't help it anymore when he learned that Mark was going to fool him into making this kind of movie, and punched the other party, he happened to be a cowherd once, yes, he took the woman's money, but he wasn't ready to do it all the time, this has become a joke in the brotherhood, and now it's good, this bastard named Mark actually dislikes him for not being well-known enough, and is ready to send his image into thousands of households?

"On the bright side, Jason, at least we know that in addition to the Cowherd, there is still potential to become an actor." Tommy said, swallowing the food in his mouth.

At this time, Holly walked in from outside, dropped her handbag, walked over and picked up the black pepper beef cubes on the soup plate with her fingers and put them into her mouth, and then looked at Tommy:

"Registration is complete, so when will the magazine ads for Metropolitan California Edition and Children & Parents be considered for publication? You can't just recruit a bunch of cheap prostitutes for training, right? Other unemployed women are not considered at all. ”

"Why did you ask this question all of a sudden?" Tommy looked at Holly.

Holly poured herself a glass of water and held it in her hand: "Why?" Tommy, you asked me to register a human resources company, and then prepare to recruit a large number of prostitutes, I have this kind of concern and doubt now, I am going to join the computer software industry, not to open a cheap brothel in Silicon Valley. ”

"I told you, don't be anxious, take your time, why you chose to advertise in Funker magazine first, because cheap prostitutes are more tolerant than ordinary housewives, they have more unbearable experiences than ordinary women, they have dealt with all kinds of men, they have seen all kinds of bad environments, they are more adaptable to the new environment than ordinary women." Tommy ate the food in his mouth and looked at Holly:

"If you look at this as a software development process, you will find that in fact, cheap prostitutes are our first version of software, and putting them into Silicon Valley is to install the software into the MS-DOS system, and their main job is to determine one thing, that is, compatibility, Silicon Valley can be compatible with these cheap prostitutes, which is the most important thing, get the preliminary data, and then consider other functional issues, that is, according to the feedback of the previous data, adjust and guide other women."

Both Jason and Holly stopped their movements and looked at Tommy Hawk.

Tommy saw the expressions of the two and asked uncertainly, "What?" You guys have strange expressions. ”

"Stanford Women's Equality Initiative had a really vision for selecting partners, and they chose someone who summed up the women's group in terms of that." Jason exhaled, "You have so much respect for those poor women, Tommy. ”

Tommy said in a calm tone, "I only respect people who deserve respect, like Mark and Susan, and I respect them a lot. ”

"What are we going to do next?" Holly asked Tommy.

Tommy put the last bite of food into his mouth: "Keep polishing the software, keep training, and put the merchandise into Silicon Valley until Lotus really realizes we exist." ”

……

Jim Manz flipped through several computer magazines this week, and found that the advertising space was still occupied by himself and a few old rivals, and there was no new software available, and there were no new faces in the interview, so he licked his lips and asked the secretary next to him, "Which one is our distributor in California?" ”

"Kinnell Chain Software Monopoly." The secretary thought for a moment and replied affirmatively.

Jim nodded, "That's right, it's Kinnear, I asked you to contact them and ask them to help find out about a software company called Actor in California, did they call?" ”

"Not only did they call, they even faxed the relevant text." The secretary quickly rummaged through the documents and handed the information to Jim: "It's just that the information shows that the company is not a threat, so I'm going to wait until I get off work to ask you to take a look, after all, you are busy dealing with the problem with Moses Software." ”

According to information that Kinnear helped to understand, the company, called Actor, was founded by three Stanford University students who received startup funds from Stanford University, and the company is located in a garage on Stanford Liberty Avenue, and there are no plans to sell software in the near future.

The reason for this certainty is that Kinal has asked various computer-related magazines and media outlets in the vicinity of Silicon Valley, and Actor does not appear to have contacted any of the specialized media outlets.

According to the normal idea of a startup software company, if the other party is ready to bring the software to the market in the near future, no matter how short of funds, the startup company will find a way to appear in these professional magazines to attract the attention of peers and investors, and at least take out the money to ask some computer magazine reporters to help write a user review and so on.

In the secretary's view, a small startup company that has no sales plan this quarter is not worth Jim's wasted any time, after all, Lotus's biggest opponent is MicroPort, which recently acquired a small company called Moses, which previously developed a spreadsheet software called DeskCalc, because it was compatible with Lotus1-2-3 files without authorization, and was blocked by Lotus at the legal level just after it went public.

Just when the court was about to sentence Moses of infringement and hand over the software code and all the data, MicroPort acquired Moses at this time and supported Moses to countersue Lotus for monopolizing the computer application programming interface API level in an attempt to build a software ecosystem island.

Moses had no money to fight a lawsuit, but with Minimally Invasive behind it, its natural combat effectiveness soared, and the legal team of Minimally Invasive had been assembled and was ready to defeat Lotus's legal team for Moses.

"Moses Software has now been acquired by MicroPort, this kind of lawsuit that was supposed to win has become a time-consuming pull, and there will be no clear situation in two or three years, and any time is completely wasted in the short term without paying attention to it, so that the lawyer team can study the legal provisions related to computers." Jim clutched the thin piece of fax paper and said:

"However, this Actor company struck me as wondering, how did Lotus get this software if they didn't have a plan to release it this quarter? Listening to Mickey, they said that this software is already a full version, a fully developed software, there is no plan to sell it in the near future, but it was first picked up by Lotus, which is not normal, before Mickey said that this was sent by a Lotus user, and now I think it is likely to be sent by the Actor himself. ”

"Maybe they got a lawyer's letter from us and canceled the sale?" The secretary cautiously reminded beside him.

Jim Manz stretched out his finger and motioned for the other party not to interrupt his train of thought, he got up from his seat, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, and looked out at the scenery: "What if you think differently?" They weren't engineers like Mitch, they were businessmen who deliberately leaked it to us and just wanted us to help them get a free publicity. ”

"But they don't have plans to sell it." The secretary said suspiciously.

"That's because Jonathan didn't make it under my persuasion, they used to weave a web hoping that Mickey or Jonathan would fall into it, and then launch their software, but in the end no one went, and their plan failed." Jim Manz turned his head to look at the secretary, and his eyes lit up:

"If my suspicion is true, it means that the other party is not a nerdy programmer like Mickey and Jonathan, they know how to use means other than software, and Mickey and Jonathan don't do that."

The secretary shook his head puzzled: "But that company has already determined that there is no plan to sell this quarter......"

"Don't keep reminding me of any damn release plans! Who told you that there's only one way to sell software to a software reseller, and if you want to be a call girl, what else would you do besides advertise in a magazine or be affiliated with an entertainment company? Jim looked at the secretary and asked, "By the way, if you still have a lawyer's letter." ”

"I don't want to and don't know how to be a call girl, sir." The secretary was stunned at first, and then said nervously.

Jim turned his head to look out the window and said, "You can still fucking dress yourself up and stand down the street with a lawyer's letter and trick those foolish men into paying to line up for you in the guise of asking for help." ”

The secretary couldn't stand Jim's vulgar conversation at every turn, and was about to quietly quit, but Jim said again: "Let's see if there is a Silicon Valley exhibition that I can attend recently, and then book two air tickets in the name of the company, and Mickey invited me to come to solve all the possible threats to the existence of Lotus for him, so I will be relieved to see with my own eyes that they are not standing on the street to solicit customers." ”

The first change, this will roll down the second change~

(End of chapter)