Xueba Fengyun

Although Liu Miao has cooperated with Nokia before, this is the first time he has come to Finland.Regarding Finland, besides Nokia, what Liu Miao knows most is the Finnish baths.However, before this trip to Finland, Liu Miao also specifically asked professionals about Finnish living customs and social taboos, and finally came to the conclusion that Finland is a large collection of typical tsundere and ascetic families.To put it simply, Finns are the kind of people who are extremely cold on the outside, but extremely hot on the inside.After all, the Finnish baths built by others are generally open to the public, so if you want to take a Finnish bath, you can go anywhere in Finland.But the only requirement is that no clothes are allowed.Even bathing suits and bathrobes are considered extremely rude, and yes, Finns don't mind being naked with strangers in a Finnish bathroom at all.

Another thing that makes Liu Miao feel strange is that if you think your neighbor's rooftop has a good view and you want to visit it.Most Finns just turn their heads indifferently and don't say a word.But within three days, you will definitely receive the key sent to you by your neighbor through the courier company.This made Liu Miao feel dumbfounded, wouldn't it be good to just agree or disagree?The courier company has to send the key, and they don't even give a chance to thank you.

When the plane landed in Helsinki, Liu Miao's lungs seemed to have been washed by the icy and clean air.At this time, Huaxia's emphasis on environmental protection is still average. Although the smog has not appeared as terrible as later generations, Liu Miao has to take precautions first.Whether it is the current office or a new office building, Liu Miao has to design it as a fully enclosed one, and all the air is purified and then circulated inside.At the same time, the company's office area is equipped with a large number of green plants and negative oxygen ion generators. Liu Miao does not want his technical talents to fall ill due to air problems.

Similar to the layout of the Youth Club, except for sensitive departments, Titan Company also pursues a smoke-free open office.There are free coffee, tea, cocoa and other beverages and snacks in the office area on each floor, as well as a gym and a capsule bedroom where you can take a short break.In order to take care of the feelings of smokers, smoking rooms are arranged on each floor.Of course, Liu Miao will not deliberately make the smoking room look like the north wind is howling because he does not smoke, but the entrance here is double doors, and there is a powerful extraction device between the two doors to remove the smell of smoke from the smokers.At the same time, the exhaust equipment in the smoking room is double that of other places, and there are more green plants of various colors, and there are large air purifiers in the four corners.In the words of smokers, it is like smoking in a big forest.

However, Liu Miao is still very strict about smoking outside the non-smoking area, fined once, and immediately expelled twice.Unless it is a newcomer who has been on the job for less than a month, you can have an extra warning opportunity.As for those who smoke in the toilet, Liu Miao also divided the toilet into a smoking area and a non-smoking area, not to mention that the company does not give you a place.If you have to go to a place where you shouldn't smoke, then the company will naturally regard you as disrespecting the company.

Finland is one of the world's famous high-welfare countries, so most people on the streets are very comfortable.Or spend time in the cafe, or ride a bicycle through the city.Liu Miao suddenly lamented that only this place can be a single free software linux, after all, only after you have no worries about food and drink, then you have the ability to pursue a higher realm.If you put it in India or China, Tencent's programmers are almost on the verge of death from overwork due to piracy every day. How do you say they have time to pursue the open spirit of the Internet and the free spirit of open source software?Only in this place can the piracy party be born, people who take sharing for granted.

In Liu Miao's view, doing free software and open source software is worthy of respect and admiration, but it is definitely not worth promoting.How many programmers are relying on this meager software income to support their families, how can they have the ability to open source their own works?As for some people saying why software giants like Microsoft and Apple don't open source?Liu Miao just laughed at this. Could it be that Microsoft and Apple don't want to support their programmers?Also, do small and medium-sized companies around people stop eating?Therefore, Liu Miao respects those who are willing to open source and authorize publicly, but he resents kidnapping others because of morality.

On the surface, it seems that Torvalds has no desires, but in fact, he is rich to a certain extent.I grew up in Finland, a high-welfare country. As long as I am willing to study, how can I bear the terrible student loan?Don’t think he didn’t receive a penny for developing Linux, but in fact both Red Hat and VA donated some stocks to him when their companies went public. These stocks were worth more than 1998 million US dollars in 2000. .Therefore, Tovac is an out-and-out multi-millionaire, and at the same time he is the chief engineer of Transmeta, so he can have his own independent and luxurious soho in the expensive Northern California, and at the same time, he can return to Helsinki to enjoy it from time to time. down life.

Liu Miao just learned that he was in Helsinki at this time and was going back to his alma mater, the University of Helsinki, to prepare a speech.With the help of Nokia, Liu Miao finally got a chance to have a private interview.When Torvalds came down from the university lecture hall in high spirits, Liu Miao caught a trace of loneliness in the corner of his eyes.In fact, Liu Miao is very grateful for this opportunity arranged by Nokia. The idea of ​​Nokia is that Torvalds is the happiest at this time, so it will be very convenient to talk about everything next.But Liu Miao knew that Torvalds came back to teach and raise funds.Apparently, the teaching aspect has been very successful, but the fundraising has been nothing.Open source projects, while respected, are not universally popular.Because in this world, ordinary people like Liu Miao still occupy the majority.

Although Tovacs had some failures, he still showed great enthusiasm to meet Liu Miao.Nokia's introduction to Liu Miao was "a young genius from the East. He and his family are becoming the richest consortium in the Far East." Faced with such an introduction, Tovac was moved.Especially after hearing that Liu Miao is a future genius that Microsoft is optimistic about, Torvac's "good teacher" skills immediately shined.

Anyone who becomes the "father of xx" more or less hopes to become the godfather of a certain industry, so Tovac, the father of linux, hopes that he can become the godfather of the free software industry.The genius who can help Microsoft solve the bugs of the windows system at the middle school stage cannot be won over by the demon king Gates. He should become the leader of the next generation of free software, and he will become the spiritual totem that the free software industry will never forget.Also, isn't his family rich?With his funding, the Linux community will have no shortage of development capital for at least the next ten years.Yes, free software engineers don't need money, but maintaining such a community must cost a lot of money.Especially in this era when hard disks and bandwidth are very valuable, many free software developers who are still living in food and clothing have to use newsgroups to communicate, because they can't afford more expensive Internet access fees.So when Torvac saw Liu Miao, Torvac still showed his most sincere smile.

Liu Miao didn't foolishly talk about commercial licensing at the beginning, but chatted with Tovac about his views on the Internet and the future mobile Internet.When Torvac heard that the future Internet will become more free because it is based on wireless networks, his eyes lit up.Moreover, Liu Miao predicted that with the improvement of hardware capabilities and the decline of prices, network terminal equipment will inevitably transfer from personal computers to mobile communication equipment, so smart phones will sound the first clarion call of the mobile Internet era.At this time, Tovac also heard about Nokia's internal development of the Symbian system, but the functions of the Symbian system obviously did not meet Liu Miao's needs. On the contrary, his own Linux was more suitable.

So Tovac secretly thought it was bad, and at this moment, Liu Miao said: "Mr. Tovac, to be honest, I just need your commercial authorization for the earliest version of linux. I know that your open source software in linux There is an estoppel clause in the agreement, although I know that you will not enable it with your nobility. But I need you to use this clause now, but I promise that I will not use this authorization to hinder the future development of linux to mobile devices You said that you only want open source and freedom, but what about other engineers? As far as I know, linux does not even have a large-scale network community, and many engineers dedicated to linux have to give up continuing to develop due to life pressure, which will inevitably cause The development of linux is trapped. Nowadays, the commercialization of linux is not a shameful thing, and you have also seen the success of Red Hat. So, why don't you help us? Help us, but also help yourself. Mr. Torvac, as long as If you can obtain your commercial authorization, you will not only get a corresponding authorization income, but I will also donate a certain amount of funds, part of which will be used for the formal establishment of the Linux community; the other part will be converted into a foundation to help those who are forced to live Engineers who have quit under pressure. At the same time, I assure you that I will continue to fund your development of a free and open source mobile operating system once my product is on the market. Mr. Tovacs, I am very sincere in proposing my Conditions, you can think about it."

Liu Miao did not force Tovac to express his opinion immediately, but left a copy of his own information.In the data, there are those engineers who are poor in Russia and India but still contribute to free software, and there are also Liu Miao's ideas for the free software android developed for linux in the future.Liu Miao doesn't intend to steal the advantages of the android system, because it is related to the layout of Huaxia's mobile phones later, and Liu Miao doesn't want to just eat enough for one person.

People in Japan and South Korea are teaming up to scan the global mobile phone market. No matter how good I am, I can't beat the national team, right?So Liu Miao needs allies. Liu Miao is targeting the mid-to-high-end smartphone market; so at least one or two mid-to-low-end mobile phone manufacturers in China can win allies, right?Liu Miao's expectations for his smartphone are more like the Apple system, with a very artistic design and a humanized interface.Liu Miao's internal assessment of smartphones is actually very simple. Just take a middle-aged woman aged 40 to 50 on the street, as long as she can learn to make calls, send text messages, and basic settings within 5 minutes, then the system is successful. of.

Tovac almost read the information left by Liu Miao with tears in his eyes.He knows that he is never alone on the road of free software.But he didn't expect that among his comrades-in-arms, there were such impoverished ones.Torvac felt that he should do something, and he sent an e-mail to his two best friends.Soon he received a reply from them, and they agreed to Tovac.So Liu Miao received a call from Tovac, saying that he would sign a contract with Liu Miao in half a month.