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Text Chapter 187 The Pope of Free Software

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    If you look back from 2013, in the history of smartphone development, you have to mention a monster-like genius.

    His name is Linus Torvalds. This Finnish man who created the LINUX system at the age of 21 has the admiration of countless enthusiastic designers and programmers. He is known as one of the top ten hackers in the United States, but he is  The most visible person among them - the U.S. federal government dared to arrest several other hackers, but it would never dare to say anything about Linus, otherwise designers and programmers across the United States would riot.

    What?

    You don¡¯t know what a LINUX system is?

    In a few years, you may be dazzled by the term ANDROID system.

    This operating system for mobile phones and tablets, called "Android" in Chinese, is a commercial version developed based on LINUX as its core.

    In other words, without Linus, everyone will have to use Apple¡¯s IOS or Nokia¡¯s Symbian in the future.

    Moreover, LINUX is not just used on mobile phones and tablets. Its kernel is widely used in routers, computers, supercomputers, etc.

    In the future, the ten fastest supercomputers in the world will all use the LINUX system, which shows its technological leadership.

    Of course, LINUX is an open source platform.

    Linus's idol is Richard Stallman, the father of free software. So after he created LINUX, he allowed users to develop, design, and sell system products based on LINUX through a universal free license.  , but there is only one thing. As long as you are using a LINUX system, the products you develop based on this must also have open source code and be free.

    So, now everyone knows why the Android system is an open platform, right?

    It¡¯s not that the Android system doesn¡¯t want to learn from IOS and create a monopoly, but it simply can¡¯t.

    Because it has been required to do this since Linus. No matter how awesome Andy Robin, the father of Android, is, he has to follow the wishes of the original source coder and open up the Android system.

    But it is precisely because of Linus's unselfish behavior that so many designers and programmers admire him and continue to gather under the LINUX system platform to continuously help improve and improve LINUX.  functions, thus making LINUX more and more perfect.

    Through some events in later generations, Xiao Qi actually did not agree with open source code. What he wanted was a closed operating system platform.

    The debate about closedness and openness has been going on since the birth of electronic products. No one on both sides can convince anyone.

    You can say that the Android system will occupy 70% of the market share in 2012, but you cannot deny that the Apple mobile phone created by other people's IOS system has occupied 70% of the total profit of the mobile phone market!

    "Which of these two methods is better or worse, Xiao Qi doesn't know, but he knows that what he wants can only be a closed operating system platform.

    In Xiao Qi¡¯s view, open platforms are a step back for society!

    All the hardships of designers have been destroyed by the open platform. Pirated software and games emerge in endlessly, enjoying the hard work of designers and developers, but they do not need to pay a penny to designers and developers at all!

    This is to tire the cows to death and not let them eat grass!

    Are Chinese people short of money?

    There may have been a shortage in the past, but after 2008, China's economy has developed to a high level. There are more people with money. Among those who can afford IPHONE and IPAD, 90% are not short of money at all!

    What they lack is respect for knowledge, respect for inventions and creations!

    Chinese people who have been used to free stuff for a long time lack the mentality to use products openly!

    If this mentality is not reversed, China's inventions and creations will definitely not be brilliant again, and China's technological power will never be achieved!  !

    Because only with huge profits and a sense of honor can developers be motivated and technology can develop further!

    In the future, will Apple¡¯s closed platform have more talents, or will Android¡¯s open platform have more talents?

    Just look at the profit ratio of the two aspects, and you can already know the answer!

    No matter how many Android machines you sell, the meager profit is the foundry in the electronics industry. Only the high-tech and imaginative Apple platform is the guarantee of making huge profits!

    But this does not mean that Xiao Qi can convince Linus to authorize him to independently develop LINUX and then not disclose his system source code.

    Judging from the subsequent confrontation between Microsoft, Apple, Nokia and other giants and Linus?It is almost an impossible task to convince this super genius who can't win back nine bulls.

    The only thing Xiao Qi relied on was his knowledge of the future, hoping to impress Linus based on the reality of the future.

    But the young man was not sure whether he could succeed or not.

    Xiao Qi, who read Linus's autobiography "JUSTFORFUN" a few years later, naturally remembered that he did not live near Silicon Valley at this time, but lived in New York.

    Because his eldest daughter was also studying dancing at a famous dance school in New York after going to school. For his daughter¡¯s interest, he chose to work online and only had to send his research results to the OSDL where he was employed every week.

    Programmers abroad, and even R&D personnel, are very free, because they all need a free and relaxed atmosphere to better inspire inspiration. The most famous one is Google's office area, which is like an amusement park.  .

    Like many research institutes in China, there are scientific researchers who sit in the office strictly and are not allowed to get off work until they sit for eight hours a day. Xiao Qi really can¡¯t imagine how they can burst out with inspiration and come up with something good.

    Therefore, in Xiao Qi's research laboratory at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, he asked everyone to go and play around Rongcheng by themselves while completing a task. For those who didn't want to go too far, there were free movies in the laboratory building.  Cards, fitness cards, KTV stored-value cards, etc., you can use them at will, you can take your wife, children or even friends to play together. All expenses will be paid by the company.

    This decision surprised and pleased everyone who came in, especially those graduate students and doctoral students who were used to poverty. They were happy to shout "Long live the little boss". Such a relaxed environment really helped their boring procedures and  Research career has brought rays of warm sunshine.

    In fact, Xiao Qi has prepared more than just this for his employees.

    In the company headquarters next to Sichuan Normal University, there are even more good things prepared. Xiao Qi has reason to believe that his headquarters can definitely be regarded as the most coveted in Asia.  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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