Eric Raymond, with a messy hair and unkempt appearance, looks like a homeless man. He is actually the founder and first chairman of the Open Source Promotion Association. He is also one of the most exposed hackers in the world. He is versatile. In addition to computer programming, he is also a writer, musician and karate black belt...

Bruce Perlens, with curly hair and stylish clothes, looks like an artist, is actually one of the founders of the Open Source Promotion Association, the craftsman of the Debian program and the early leader...

Larry Augustine, with neat hair and well-dressed clothes, looks like a Hollywood actor. She is actually the founder and CEO of VA-Linux. VALinux was renamed SourceForge in 2007. It was the most popular code hosting website in the world before the rise of Github...

Jamie Gavinsky, long blue hair, leather trousers and horse boots, looks like a rock star, and is actually one of the main developers of XEmacs and Netscape-Navigator, a key figure and core member of the Mozilla project...

Du Qiu sat in the corner of the conference room of O'Reilly Media Company, looking at a group of guys with different images and talkative stories in front of him. He felt that he was not attending a far-reaching academic conference, but more like attending an offline event of an online game guild or a team meeting before a DOTA game. He was surrounded by great gods, and he was just an unknown little character.

In fact, he is indeed a small character. In about 1995, China's total GDP was only one-tenth of that of the United States. The economy is the cornerstone of scientific research. If the economy is not good, the strength and influence of scientific research are naturally not good. The software and the Internet are even blank. Not only are there no famous companies, but there is not even a product worth mentioning. It can be said that in the eyes of practitioners in the European and American IT industries, there is no difference between China and Africa at this time. If those four articles were not just hitting the G-spots of these great masters, it would be impossible to have the opportunity to participate in this conference.

There were very few people attending the meeting, only a dozen. In addition to the masters of programming, some were journalists from famous media in the industry such as "Wire" and "Computer World". Among these people, only the reporter from "Wire" read the four articles by Du Qiu and exchanged greetings with him. They either turned a blind eye or were surprised how there was a Chinese person. A guy even regarded him as an international student who came to work temporarily and told him to buy coffee.

Du Qiu is an old world who has experienced more than ten years of Internet wave baptism. He knows that the fame on the Internet and the fame in reality cannot be confused. There is a huge gap between the two, so he is very calm. Chen Dayou is the first brother of the Internet. He encountered this kind of scene for the first time. He helped Du Qiu handle thousands of enthusiastic emails in Yuncheng. He thought he would be very popular and valued after he arrived in the United States, but he was casually thrown in the conference room, not even the most basic way to pour tea and water. He suddenly became unbalanced and began to worry about gains and losses.

Those four articles seem to be less sensational than I thought...

Is the browser OK? Will it sink into the sea after it is launched? If that happens, would my 1 million be useless...

Jiang Danfeng looked at the demons dancing in the conference room, all of which were T-shirts, jackets and jeans, and no one was wearing a suit and tie. He was completely different from those international conferences he had seen before. He was both curious and puzzled. He didn't know what kind of conference it was, so he asked: "Du Qiu, who are these people?"

"If you compare the computer industry with the film industry, you will be full of world-class big stars, and you will be the kind of powerful stars who can win Oscars, such as Robert Redford, Kevin Costner, Al Pacino, etc."

Jiang Danfeng thought to himself when he heard this, and then smiled and said, "If they were all movie stars, you would also sit here now. Is that equivalent to Brad Pitt in "The End of the Way"?"

Du Qiu and Chen Dayou mentioned "The End of Flowers" the day before yesterday. After visiting Mountain View City yesterday, the two stayed in the house to test the browser. Jiang Danfeng, who was idle, rented the video of the movie and took it back to watch it, so he learned about the characters, plot and main actors in it.

"The End of Flower" is a movie in 1991. At that time, Brad Pitt was just a fledgling actor. He played a gangster who cheated money and sex in the movie. Because of his handsome appearance, excellent figure, and outstanding performance, he was loved by a large number of female audiences. He became famous at a rocket-like speed. In 1993, he won the Best Actor of the Venice Film Festival. In 1994, he starred in two blockbusters, "Night Visit to Vampire" and "Love Years". In just a few years, he became a new generation of Hollywood superstars. Jiang Danfeng's analogy is not only suitable for the situation, but also very likable. He praised Du Qiu's handsomeness and hoped that he would develop smoothly in the future, and showed a high social emotional intelligence.

This is also the main reason why Du Qiu asked Jiang Danfeng to be a private secretary. She is not as good as Su Wenxiu in her work, but she is very good at being a human being, especially good at grasping the degree of being in interaction with others, adapting to the situation, and making a strong ability to change with the wind. With such a secretary, she can not only become a bridge for communication with others, but also a barrier for confrontation with others. If an incident like Ma Xiaoli occurs again, she can be arranged to deal with it without having to face the embarrassment of breaking up the face of a hard bridge and a hard horse.

At about 9:30, Tim O'Reilly, the owner of O'Reilly Media, appeared. He had a tough face and tall figure, looked like an officer. He said a few opening words concisely and announced the official start of the seminar.

It is actually more like a brainstorming meeting within an IT company. It has neither fixed topics nor fixed agendas. It speaks freely. It says this a few words and then that a few words. The atmosphere is very relaxed, but it is very messy and has low efficiency. After listening to Jiang Danfeng's translation for about half an hour, Du Qiu chose a gap in which no one talked, raised his hand and said, "Can I say a few words?"

Tim O'Reilly seemed to have just discovered that there was such a Chinese in the conference room. She raised her hand and introduced everyone, saying: "This is UN2758, an advocate of open source software from China. His name is... well..."

"My name is Du Qiu."

"Hi, friends from China." A reporter leaned on a chair, hugged the back of his head with his hands, and his face was full of sarcasm and superiority. He whispered loudly: "We have no political review, no Red Guards here. We don't need to raise our hands to apply for eating, sleeping, or going to the bathroom. Oh, by the way, it also includes talking."

There was a burst of laughter in the conference room. Amid the laughter, Du Qiu lowered his head and said to Jiang Danfeng: "You can translate whatever I will say later. Don't be tactful. The stricter the words, the better. Do you understand?"

Jiang Danfeng seemed to be angry by the malicious joke and nodded vigorously.

"My hand raised is just to show that I am a polite person, and it has nothing to do with censorship." Du Qiu stood up, looked down at everyone, and after brewing his emotions, he clenched his fists and knocked on the table and roared: "Do you Americans just spit and play word games? I have solved all the definitions and protocols about open source software. There is only one thing left, that is to do it! My four articles have been published for more than two months, and you are still sitting here talking about the so-called concepts and ideas, no no no! These things do not need to be discussed, just read the article a few times. If you can't understand it, it means you are all fools!"

The sudden roar scared everyone in the conference room. He looked at him in amazement, no longer the leisure and leisure as before. The reporter leaned on the back of the chair with his head in his arms and almost fell down. With the support of the people next to him, he hurriedly sat upright.

If you don't speak loudly, no one will pay attention to your existence...

It's indeed a famous saying...

Not everyone can be the head of state. After roaring for a few words, Du Qiu felt that his throat could not bear it anymore. At the same time, he felt that he had attracted enough attention. So he took advantage of Jiang Danfeng's translation and took a few seconds to rest, then stopped talking nonsense, opened the newly bought laptop yesterday and asked, "Tim, is there a projector here? I will use a practical example to tell you how to do open source software and how efficient the Chinese are!"

Tim O'Reilly, who was sitting at the top of the conference table, was stunned for a moment before reacting, raised his hand to signal the meeting recorder sitting near the door to get the projector.

After the projector and laptop were debugged, Du Qiu opened the slide document specially made before coming to the United States. The first picture displayed scared everyone in the conference room, especially Jamie Gavinsky, because there was a shocking title on it: Microsoft is not necessarily the one who killed Netscape, but it is more likely to be iView.

"iView is a browser I wrote. It will be published publicly on the Internet in free open source form after today's meeting. Let me take this as an example and introduce the experience in the research and development, release and version control of open source software..."

The American media industry is very developed, but it is also very snobbish. With Du Qiu and Chen Dayou's family background, he can't afford to invite mainstream media reporters to attend iView's press conference. Without mainstream media reports, iView is a beauty kept in the boudoir, no one knows. If you rely solely on word of mouth on the Internet, the efficiency is too low. Perhaps before the number of users has risen, the company's funds will be exhausted and cannot compete with Netscape and Microsoft. So he decided to take advantage of the east wind and use sensationalism to turn the seminar held by O'Reilly Media into his own browser press conference. This not only does not have to spend money, but it can also quickly attract the attention of industry leaders and mainstream media, thereby promoting iView.

The participants in the conference were all elites in the IT industry. The iView and iScript, which had no bad vision and were extremely innovative and practical, quickly conquered them. Du Qiu compared the slides and talked endlessly for more than an hour. While he was telling, people kept raising their hands to ask questions, but no one mocked and sarcastic.

"My partners will provide you with relevant documents on the iView installation program, source code and iScript language. The above is what I want to talk about today, thank you."

After Du Qiu finished the explanation, someone in the conference room applauded, someone slapped the table, and someone whistled, and the reaction was very enthusiastic. Chen Dayou was overjoyed when he saw this and immediately took out dozens of floppy disks from his backpack and distributed them one by one. His spoken language was very good, and communication was no problem at all. He distributed it like a cigarette while chatting. When the delivery was finished, everyone knew that his name was Kevin Chen, and he was the CEO of iView.

"Hey, Du, I'm JWZ, I want to have a good talk with you."

"Yes, this is my address in the United States, you can come to me at any time."

"No, no, no, I want to ask you to go to the NetView meeting room and bring everyone together, and then you will say everything about the browser from beginning to end as you did just now." Jamie Gavinsky made a pose with his hands holding the ball, emphasizing: "We want to know all the details."

"No problem, I'm willing to answer anything you want to know."
Chapter completed!