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Chapter 20 Provocation and Planning

Du Qiu returned to Xiaohonglou with a stinky sweat, intending to return the electronic watch to Su Wenxiu, and then go to the rented house to take a bath. Xiaohonglou is in a semi-aborted state. There are very few people at the beginning of school, and even fewer after holidays. The corridor is quiet. When he walked to the near office, he heard a woman talking to Su Wenxiu.

"That Du Qiu did nothing. He actually went running during work hours, and there were no people running. Why should he share dividends with you?"

"He designed the notepad."

"Tsk! How much money can the design be worth? A few days ago, you distributed him 3,000 yuan, which isn't enough?"

Su Wenxiu didn't say anything, and the woman continued, "I just read the account book. Your business is very prosperous now. On average, you can earn more than 2,300 yuan a day. Why not just open him? This way, you can share money by one person, and each person can get nearly 200 yuan a day. In a month, it's not a small amount."

"Sister-in-law, what are you talking nonsense?"

"What am I talking nonsense? This book is not difficult to make. If you take care of production and your second brother is in charge of sales, you can support it. Huihui is from the tax bureau, has relationships and ways, and it is your second brother's horse. It's nothing to keep her, but Du Qiu is just a free meal. He gives him so much money, so he loses a lot, okay?"

It is easy to share hardships and hardships, and it is difficult to share wealth and prosperity. Before the stall is opened, internal strife has begun?

Among the four partners, I am an outsider. If the three join forces, they may be swept out...

Du Qiu was awakening secretly, but heard a sound in the room, as if Su Wenxiu smashed the desk with something, and then said loudly: "At home, you are the eldest sister-in-law, I can't control the quarrels and troubles, and I don't control the right and wrong, but this is my office. If you talk nonsense again, don't come over in the future, I don't want your help!"

"Xiuxiu, there are no outsiders here, why are you getting angry with a child? My sister-in-law is thinking about you."

"For my sake? I'll fire Du Qiu today and fire Sister Huihui tomorrow. Then you and my elder brother can come to help with it rightfully. Helping will be yours, right?" Su Wenxiu let out a short sneer and teased with cleverness: "Brother, I was so mean to be fooled by you as soon as I got married. Now that I have divided my parents' property, I'm here to take advantage of my brother-in-law and sister-in-law?"

"Oh Xiuxiu! Although my sister-in-law had a bad temper before, I had a few arguments with you occasionally, even if you and Ah Hai broke up, they were still a family. They broke their bones and had tendons. Why do you take advantage of you? I'm afraid you will be taken advantage of by others." The woman was very thick-skinned, and suddenly said, "Xiuxiu, you fell in love with that Du Qiu, right? Tsk tsk, she is really an outgoing girl. For an outsider, she doesn't even take her brother and sister-in-law seriously."

"This has nothing to do with whether he likes it or not. Du Qiu did the job he should do, and he did it very well. It is natural to get dividends. You are not qualified to make trouble."

"Oh, your face is red like a monkey's butt, and you're stubborn. If you like it, you're not a big deal. You're 20 years old this year, and you should find a husband-in-law to marry..."

When Du Qiu heard this, he felt that it was meaningless, so he stamped his feet twice, pretended to be walking, and then pushed open the office door. When he entered the door, he saw a woman in a brown leather jacket, about 30 years old, with a good appearance, but she was dressed very vulgarly, with a curved instant noodles head, a fluffy fur scarf, and a dark red lipstick, giving people a swaying and sturdy feeling.

"Du Qiu, you are back... Why are you sweating profusely? You won't run away all morning?"

"No, I've played basketball with someone for a while." Du Qiu saw that Su Wenxiu's face was indeed a little red, and she didn't know if she was angry or shy, so she pretended to be nothing, handed over the electronic watch, and said, "I'm going back to take a shower. I have something else to do in the afternoon. Come over at about 5:30."

"good."

If it were the past, Du Qiu had to say a few words to the woman for the sake of the Su brother and sister. Now that his mentality has changed, he treats her as air, and turns around and leaves after giving in. As soon as he goes out, he hears the woman's complaint: "Look, look, I'll just say he's a waste of food! I'll absent from work in the morning, but I won't come yet in the afternoon, and my quality is low, my eyes are on my forehead, and I don't know how to say hello..."

No wonder Su Wenxiu complained last time that her family always had quarrels. With such a sister-in-law here, how could she live in harmony?

It turns out that Su Wenhai is just his second brother, and Su Wenxiu has a eldest brother, but he has never heard her mention it before. It is probably because the brother and sister are in a mess...

Du Qiu returned to the rented house, took a shower happily, and then made a omelette rice by himself. After eating, he pulled up the curtains, took out the host, memory and hard drive, and reassembled it into a laptop. After turning on the computer, he searched the hard drive for a while, and finally opened several PDF documents.

"Cathedral and the Market", "Open Source Software Collection: Voice of Open Source Revolution", "Creating the Future Together: Creating the Myth of Free Software", "The Road to Success of Open Source"...

Open source software was a treasure house for reputation in 1995...

According to the original plan, Du Qiu planned to go to the Quantum Physics Institute in Qingyunshan on January 22 to upload the written 7-ZIP to the Internet in the form of sharing software, do some promotion activities in advance, expand its popularity, and quickly follow up after Windows 95 was released in August, launching a new version of Winzip to compete for the market. Compression software is a necessary tool software on every computer, with a huge installation volume. As long as one-tenth of the market is seized, the number of users will be as many as millions. Even if only one percent of these users pay to buy, they can still bring considerable income.

But now Du Qiu is planning to play a big game. He no longer wants to be an ordinary programmer with a large income but no personality, but a legendary figure like Bill Gates, Richard Storman or Linus Torvatz who can be recorded in the history of human computer development. To achieve this, the most important thing is not money, but reputation, because for the Time Travel Party, money is easy to make. Whether it is buying stocks of listed companies such as Microsoft and Cisco, or investing in newly-started startups such as Yahoo and Amazon, they can easily earn enough money to spend their entire lives within one or two years. However, reputation is invisible and can only be cultivated slowly and cannot be achieved quickly. Those celebrities who rely on sensation to become popular overnight are fleeting meteors and cannot become legends.

Because he is going back to his hometown for the Spring Festival soon, Du Qiu is very short of time now and cannot make any big name. So he is going to take a few tricks and write down a few articles first, upload them to the Internet together with the source code of 7-ZIP, dance the banner of open source software, and give the title of "the first advocate of open source software", and then recruit soldiers and build his own career after the Spring Festival - no reputation, career is like a good wine in the alley, no one knows, no career, reputation is like a cloud in the sky, illusory, both are indispensable.

In 2016, open source software has become common sense. Many people who are not engaged in the IT industry have heard of this term and know the meaning it represents. However, in 1995, there were only free software in the world, and there were no open source software. Because the term open-source was not proposed until the spring of 1997, and it was recognized by the industry in April 1998. Due to the precise word use, clear definition, wide application, and high degree of freedom, under the influence of the Internet, a development and sales model that was very different from traditional commercial software was quickly developed. Not only was it favored and supported by industry giants such as IBM and Intel, but even old stubborn people like to eat alone, such as Microsoft and Oracle, have joined in and opened many of its software.

The world is in a great way, and those who follow it will prosper, and those who go against it will perish. Open source software is the future development trend. As long as you follow this situation and make achievements, it is not difficult to keep your name in history. However, there are many documents on open source software in your laptop, and there are no ones that can be plagiarized intact. Du Qiu had to take the initiative to write a graduation thesis, refer to various materials in the computer, and combine what he saw and heard before traveling through time and what he thought, and plan to use the basic definition, development model, business prospects, and future prospects of open source software as the themes, and to create four articles by himself.

The first article is the most rigorous and troublesome, because it involves the specific meaning of the term "open source" and the copyright issues of various open source protocols. If it is written by a person from this time and space, it may not be able to be written in one or two months, but Du Qiu has ready-made documents for reference, and it took only one hour to complete it.

Next is the development model. In 1995, there were almost no other successful examples of open source software except Linux. In 2016, there were countless large open source software that were successfully operated in the world, with many application examples and development experiences for reference. Du Qiu used the classic masterpiece "Cathedral and Market" published by open source software pioneer Eric Raymond in 1997 to deepen and refine it, and kept typing on the keyboard until the sun sets and the night is getting darker, and he still has not finished writing it.

Let's continue tomorrow...

Du Qiu saw that it was almost half past 5:30, so he opened the laptop again, put it back in place and hid it. Then he picked up his backpack that he never left, left the room, and prepared to have a meeting with his three partners in Xiaohonglou. Although the notepad business cannot get rich overnight, it is still good to dig the first pot of gold, and it must be prevented before it happens.
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