Chinese entertainment for engineering students

It started quietly and ended bustlingly. This is Wang Xu's summary of this filming process. Of course, this is just the filming process. In fact, from a publicity perspective, it has always been lively.

There are few movies that are as eye-catching as this one. It can be said that it has not stopped since the beginning. Since then, Robert has been revealing some progress from time to time, and even published daily briefings on GiTee. It is simply Everyone knows where the film was shot.

Wang Xu never thought that GiTee could be used for online promotion. Although for him, online promotion may only be regarded as a basic activity, but when it is placed on the open source community GIT, the dislocation gap simply makes him A strange feeling of constipation.

Traditional media are now beginning to pay attention to new media, and most traditional media have also followed the trend and opened their own websites. This has led to a large-scale integration of information from various media.

At the beginning, everyone was still a little worried about the copyright and did not dare to reprint it too blatantly. But within two years, everyone found that they could not win the lawsuit.

Because there are too many small companies and small portals that have appeared, they just reprint them directly. By the time they are ready to file a lawsuit, you will probably find that the company has already closed down.

In the Internet age, it seems that the speed of information dissemination has suddenly increased tenfold, and the door to a whole new world has opened. In the words of an ancient novel, the gears of destiny have begun to rotate.

In the early 1990s, having your own personal website was a temptation that no geek could refuse, but expensive bandwidth costs, server costs plus software costs were beyond the reach of ordinary people.

At this time, GIT appeared, and people suddenly discovered that this is just a free web server. As long as you can apply for a project, you will have a space to put the project description. This is the original regulation of GIT.

This is a preferential treatment for the project. To achieve this function, a technology called virtual host is also used. Oh, it was developed by Wang Xu. There are open source projects on GIT.

In fact, most open source projects are not paid attention to by anyone at all. Not even one person visits them in a day. Such projects are also called dead projects.

Therefore, even if you leave some space for them and occupy some hard disk space at most, it is not a particularly big problem as long as you arrange it beforehand.

But later someone discovered a loophole, which was to use this thing as free web space, apply for a half-true project, and then build a personal website.

This is very troublesome. Some websites are indeed very private, which is almost like a dead project. No one visits it and has almost no impact.

But some so-called personal websites actually have public purposes. Once such websites are known and promoted, they will become a platform for public access.

You really don’t know when this thing will attract endless access, taking up bandwidth and service resources.

Even if it is an ugly country, even if it is a university network, bandwidth and servers still cost money. Forget about the money, it's not a lot of money, but the problem is that these visits affect the application of GIT itself, which alerted the GIT management committee.

But it was difficult to change the rules that we had set. In the end, everyone agreed that we should just split up and actually get a free personal web space. The programs and other things were all ready-made. Although it still cost some money, it was better than GIT has been affected for good.

Thus, the third official sub-site under GIT was born. This thing will not be copied along with the mirror site like GIT, but you can only choose one as the main site. If you need high-end services, then You have to spend money.

Therefore, this is a commercial operation project and an attempt by the GIT Management Committee.

This free personal website space was very popular after it went online. It gathered huge traffic in a short period of time. In addition to the personal homepages that were migrated from GIT, it also gathered a large number of enthusiasts to build their own webpages. , forming a huge user group.

The number of visits soared explosively in a short period of time. In order to obtain funds for continued operations, the first financing was conducted in just three months and commercial capital was introduced.

Half a year later, it was the second time. Now we are negotiating with AOL, which is Chouguo Online, about the acquisition. The valuation is said to have reached 100 million US dollars.

This is not the first time that the content in GIT has been successfully applied, but it is the first commercial expansion of GIT as a public platform itself, and the result is surprisingly successful.

Wang Xu was not surprised at all. In this era, you could get rich by doing anything messy on the Internet.

"Big Shot" said that adding a zero and selling it directly to the next party is really not a joke. In the early days of the development of the Internet, that was a real incident.

This is a brand new change brought about by new technologies. When no one can see clearly, capital is actually at a loss, but everyone is afraid of missing out on new opportunities, so there are countless irrational investment behaviors.

This will happen again and again in the decades to come, which is why reborn people can easily make a lot of money, because it's really not that complicated.

Of course, what Wang Xu wants to do is not to make some money. He is actually giving the superiors a preview of the new era. There is nothing better than hundreds of millions of dollars in real money to let the superiors know what kind of thing he is holding in his hands. gold mine.

Because he clearly felt that the higher-ups attached great importance to patent pools and capital pools, but there has always been a lack of interest in this open source pool, which is actually much more valuable than the other two. Although the scientific research departments of major universities have begun to use the above Software Products.

But it is not at the same level as the enthusiasm abroad. The country is short of money, but there is no shortage of people. The same money can produce ten times more output at home than abroad.

He actually told Director Jiang about this matter, but the promotion speed is still slow, which makes Wang Xu a little anxious. After all, he is only one person. If he cannot gather more power, GIT's autonomy will actually be It cannot be held in one's own hands for a long time.

What's more, although the projects on GIT are open source, most of them have very high thresholds and are by no means something that ordinary people can master. Allowing universities to get involved more deeply can play a role in improving the scientific research strength of the entire China. The effect achieved is by no means a little bit.

Sure enough, it is better to do it once than to say it a thousand times. Before the acquisition of the website called GitSpace was completed, Wang Xu was informed that he needed to attend a high-level meeting on the construction of domestic open source communities. Many key leaders would attend and asked Wang Xu Give a one-hour presentation at the meeting.

A detailed report on the history, current situation and future development prospects of GIT, and Wang Xu was specifically asked to talk about the relationship between this thing and the national economy.

Wang Xu was satisfied. Although he had created a trouble for himself, the effect achieved was quite satisfactory.

The GIT thing is actually a very important part of Wang Xu's grand strategy, but this is really his first attempt. In the previous life, there was no open source community that developed so wildly in the 1990s.

In the previous life, the development and construction of the open source community took more than thirty years before it gradually matured. On the one hand, there were various suppressions by various commercial companies, and on the other hand, the business model was unclear, making open source a complete Pay and don’t know the profit model at all.

Simply providing services does not seem to be able to cover the huge costs of development, and will also cultivate countless competitors. Many companies based on pure services eventually exited sadly.

It was not until the success of Android in later generations that it truly brought a new business model to open source. Google provided Android for free, but conducted independent research and development for some key services that Android needs to use.

These services have gradually become a part of the Android ecosystem and become indispensable. For example, its advertising services have been quietly embedded in countless mobile phones around the world, becoming a showcase for the world's largest advertising company. window.

The same is true for search services and map services. In addition, there are messaging services, application market services, etc. If it weren’t for China’s many restrictions, China Mobile would have been dominated by Google.

Large companies can rely on open source products to achieve monopoly in such a clever way, and small companies can also rely on open source products to find their own business models, which are not as simple as simply providing services.

The most common profit model in the domestic open source community in later generations is to distinguish between enterprise version and open source version. Divided into multiple versions, if you need comprehensive services, you must purchase them. This is actually an alternative advertising sales method.

It's okay for some personal use, but once it's used by companies, the effect is actually very average.

Because most of the people who can play in the open source community are geeks. They have no say in the company's procurement, and most of them don't even have much right to make suggestions. Even if they think your free version is doing well, it’s still difficult to influence the boss’s decision when they need to purchase it.

This is a very eager-to-get-quick model, and it also ruins the reputation among these geeks. Later, most programmers just need to look at the version-based open source community and stop looking at it, because the open source part, These companies don't take care of maintenance at all.

Their energy is focused on the paid version, so even if this open source version is obtained, they have to be modified by themselves, so it is better to just buy commercial products.

This is also an important reason why the domestic open source community is getting worse and worse. A good open source community has turned into an advertising community. Who would be interested?

Therefore, on Wang Xu's GIT, these advertised projects were diverted. Open source is open source, and the content inside is based on the agreement.

If you advertise, everyone can complain, and if it is verified, the administrator will mark it as an advertisement for a commercial product, and then there will be user reviews, rankings, etc., and then you will have nothing to do.

Seriously, you can also delete the project.

Wang Xu does not reject commercial operations, otherwise he would not have given such a loose agreement to allow these open source contents to be commercialized. Isn't it a good idea to learn from previous agreements that all open source content must be open source?

What Wang Xu hates is just selling dog meat with your head up, which is actually a kind of fraud, at least in Wang Xu's opinion.

Just like those packaged versions, only fully open source packaged versions will be evaluated in the same way as open source software.

As for those that are partially open source, or simply an installation package, although GIT allows uploading, it will not give stars according to open source products.

They usually also build their own commercial websites to specialize in this matter.

Wang Xu hopes to persuade the higher authorities to use the open source community as a base for cultivating China's next generation of computer talents, so that these students can receive practical training by contributing to the open source community.

You know, even in later generations, 90% of college students who graduated from computer majors will not be able to directly start development projects when they enter a company, because they have no practical experience at all, and the homework they did in the classroom is not even relevant to the company. Not even one-tenth of the requirement was met.

Generally, within three months to half a year after graduation, you can basically do nothing. This only shows that the distance between our universities and the market is too far, and they have no idea what the current enterprises need.

In the early 1990s, Mizuki's engineering students all required a one-year internship, which required them to actually work. Mizuki had to study for one more year than students from any other university before they could graduate.

This has also made Shuimu graduates quite popular. Their adaptability after entering the enterprise has been greatly improved, and they basically have the ability to be a qualified social person.

I don’t know why, but this system was later cancelled.

(This part is related to politics and has been blocked, so I won’t write it down)

Even if Wang Xu doesn't know how to solve it, or the solution he proposes is biased, he still needs to analyze possible situations for leaders to refer to.

In later generations, we have really made very high achievements in the fields of engineering and science and technology. The field of science has also begun to exert its strength in the second half of the year, and it is very likely to catch up. It is naturally gratifying.

But this does not mean that there are really no problems, and there are even many problems. It would be good to make some changes while it is still early.

Wang Xu really spent a lot of time on this report, more seriously than he wrote the paper. Well, okay, many papers were copied, so naturally it didn't take much effort, but this thing really had to be written by himself.

Wang Xu was busy and chattering here, while Chou Guo was lively and lively over there.

Since traditional media will repost news from new media from time to time, and new media is closely linked with GiTee, "The Matrix" seems to have become a hot topic among the people before it is released.

Starting from the chat about open source system settings, countless experts and scholars came on stage to analyze whether computers will become a threat to human beings in the future and whether the three principles of robots are really foolproof.

Robots have always been a very attractive topic in the Ugly Country, especially in the 1990s. The Ugly people, who had just defeated their enemies and were drawing swords and looking around in confusion, began to turn their attention to aliens.

The earth can no longer accommodate them. If they are men, they will fight aliens. This is the common understanding of ugly people in this era. Maybe it will take another 20 years for them to suddenly wake up. What kind of aliens are there to fight? They will hijack a few planes. It will take more than ten years.

Although it is not unique to the 1990s, it is indeed another climax at this time. In the next few years, there will be similar popular movies, which is an example.

In addition to aliens, another science fiction theme is robots. The robots at this time actually refer to artificial intelligence, which is not consistent with the industrial robots and sweeping robots that are generally recognized by the public in later generations.

And "The Matrix" is the ultimate embodiment of this fantasy of artificial intelligence. This kind of thinking actually started with Socrates. Regardless of whether this person is real or not, his thoughts are indeed the basis of many modern thoughts. foundation.

In Book 7 of the Republic, Socrates is talking to Plato's brother Glaucon, and there is a scene about the manipulated caveman. If you are interested, you can check it out. I won’t copy it here. It’s quite long. In fact, it was the predecessor of the idea of ​​“The Matrix”.

This is why Wang Xu is not worried at all that "The Matrix" will not be adaptable in the West, because that itself is one of their deepest fears.

So, when "The Matrix" became a hot topic in the news, it sparked a very heated discussion, and then more media got involved.

From time to time, a few new renderings and other filming progress will appear in the news, giving people a kind of nurturing pleasure, and they are almost following it into a series.

The funniest thing is that there are really good people on GITee who collect various briefings and then almost analyze the outline of the story.

Fortunately, this movie is not a brain-burning movie, it is just an action movie. It doesn't matter whether it has a story or not. Otherwise, there is really no sense of expectation for this movie.

But this kind of excitement is indeed effective. People at New Line are crazy with joy. They have never seen anything like this. The movie hasn't even been released yet, and the popularity is about to catch up with the big hit movies.

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(See you tomorrow. Let me explain: I did not apply for the limited exemption. It is said to be automatically done by AI. In fact, it is a kind of promotion. Editors have no right to recommend limited exemption.)