Chapter 185

If you look back from 2013, you have to say a genie in the history of Smartphone development.

His name is Linus tovaz, a Finn who created the Linux system at the age of 21. He has the worship 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 in it - the federal government of the United States dares to arrest several other hackers, but he dares not say what about Linus, Otherwise, designers and programmers across the United States will riot.

what?

You don't know what a Linux system is?

In a few years, you may be dazzled by a term called Android system.

This mobile phone and tablet operating system called "Android system" in Chinese is a commercial version based on Linux.

In other words, without Linus, you can only use Apple's IOS or Nokia's Symbian in the future.

Moreover, Linux is not only the use of mobile phones and tablets, but also its kernel is widely used in routers, computers, supercomputers and so on.

In the future, the ten supercomputers with the fastest computing speed in the world, without exception, use the Linux system, which shows its leading technology.

Of course, Linux is an open source platform.

Linus' idol is Richard storman, the father of free software. After he created Linux, he allowed users to develop, design and sell system products designed based on Linux through universal free authorization. However, as long as you use Linux system, your products developed based on this must also disclose the source code, And it's free.

So now you know why Android is an open platform?

It's not that Android doesn't want to learn IOS to monopolize, but it can't.

Because Linus has asked to do so since the beginning. Whatever Andy Robin, the father of Android, forced him, he had to follow the original source code and open the Android system.

But it is precisely because of Linus' unselfish behavior that so many designers and programmers worship him, constantly gather under the Linux system platform, and constantly help improve and improve the functions of Linux, so as to make Linux more and more perfect.

Through the occurrence of some things in later generations, Xiao Qi actually doesn't agree with open source code. What he wants is a closed operating system platform.

There has been a constant debate on the two aspects of closeness and openness since the birth of electronic products. Neither side can convince anyone.

You can say that Android will occupy 70% of the market share in 2012, but you can't deny that the Apple phone created by others' IOS system accounts for 70% of the total profit of the mobile phone market!

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

In Xiao Qi's view, an open platform is the retrogression of society!

All the hardships of designers are destroyed by open platforms. Pirated software and games emerge one after another. They enjoy the painstaking achievements of design developers, but they don't have to give designers and developers a penny at all!

This is to make the cow tired to death and not feed on grass!

Are Chinese people short of money?

It may have been scarce before, but after 2008, China's economy has developed to a high level. There are many rich people. Among those who can afford iPhone and iPad, 90% are not short of money at all!

What they lack is a kind of respect for knowledge and invention!

Chinese people who have been used to free things for a long time lack the psychology of using products openly!

If this mentality is not reversed, China's invention and creation will certainly not be brilliant again, and the technological power will never be realized!!

Because only with huge profits and a sense of honor can we stimulate the motivation of R & D and make the technology more developed!

In the future, is there more talents on Apple's closed platform or Android's open platform?

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

Although you sell a lot of Android machines, the meager profit is the foundry in the electronics industry. Only the high-tech and imaginative Apple platform is the guarantee of a large amount of revenue!

However, this does not mean that Xiao Qi can persuade Linus to authorize him to develop Linux independently and not disclose his system source code.

From the confrontation between giants such as Microsoft, apple and Nokia and Linus, it is almost an impossible task to convince this super genius who can't pull back the nine cows.

The only thing Xiao Qi relies on is his understanding of the future. He hopes to move Linus from the reality of the future.

But the boy is not sure whether he can succeed.

After reading Linus' autobiography justforfun for several years, Xiao Qi naturally remembers that he does not live near Silicon Valley at this time, but in New York.

Because his eldest daughter studied dancing in a famous dance school in New York after school, he chose to work online for his daughter's interest and only sent his research results to OSDL every week.

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

Like many research institutes in China, scientific researchers who sit in the office and are not allowed to leave work for less than eight hours a day. Xiao Qi really doesn't understand that they can burst out of inspiration and come up with anything good.

Therefore, in Xiao Qi's research laboratory at the University of Electronic Science and technology, he allows everyone to play around Chengdu on their own in the gap between completing a task. They don't want to go too far. There are free movie cards, fitness cards, KTV stored value cards, etc. in the experimental building. They can be used freely. They can play with their wives, children and even friends. All expenses, All companies pay.

This decision surprised and pleased all the people who came in, especially the poor and used graduate and doctoral students, who were happy to shout "long live the little boss". Such a relaxed environment really brought a wisp of warm sunshine to their boring program and research career.

In fact, it's not just these that Xiao Qi prepares for his employees.

In the company headquarters next to Sichuan division, there are more good things to prepare. Xiao Qi has reason to believe that his headquarters can definitely be called the first in Asia（ It's not finished yet. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly ticket at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.)