Chinese entertainment for engineering students

“The above business models are actually just trivial things, and they feel like they are just a small amount of money.

Even including the recent acquisition of the third sub-station of GIT, it is actually a small matter.

Maybe many leaders have also noticed that the total market size of these things is only one billion US dollars, which does not seem to meet the standards of a gold mine.

The operating system is large-scale, but the greatest value is open source, so it cannot be sold directly, and I'm afraid you won't make much money from services. "

The leaders laughed, and the atmosphere suddenly became much more relaxed. Indeed, they all saw it. Although Huaxia was poor, none of these leaders had hundreds of millions of funds approved.

Therefore, what they think is really not a big business. This is also a problem that GIT has not received enough attention.

Now that Wang Xu has brought it up, it naturally means that this kid and the big guy haven't shown up yet.

"Let me talk about one thing first. Many leaders actually have this thing in their homes, and that is a game console."

The picture shows advertisements for Famicom, Sega game consoles, and Sony's PS1, which has not yet been launched.

The leaders continued to laugh. It was obvious that this thing had entered many people's homes.

"We have been banning the sale of this thing in our country. I won't comment because I don't know all the information.

However, the global market for this thing is about 100 billion U.S. dollars. It is not that big currently, but the global market is very large. Currently, game consoles are only sold in developed countries, but in fact, third world countries like China and Asan, There is also a vast market.

Last year, global sales of home game consoles were approximately 20 million units, which is already a market of more than 40 billion US dollars.

There is no computing software yet. Yes, it is software again. Game console software is the various games above. In fact, the market size has long exceeded the game console itself.

On average, for each game console, the price of purchasing game software is about three to five times that of the game console. The lifespan of a game console is about three to five years, so on average every year, the market size of all games is consistent with that of game consoles.

Moreover, according to my personal judgment, the replacement time of new games may become shorter and shorter, resulting in an increase in the number of game purchases.

This judgment comes from the application of my open source 3D design products overseas. Some enthusiasts have developed some small games using my 3D engine. I have not seen large games yet, but I have already seen some games with pleasure. planning is being implemented.

Moreover, there are already several versions of pure game operating systems based on COS. I am planning to make a unified GOS kernel for them, as well as an adapted three-dimensional or two-dimensional game engine, to isolate some of these capabilities.

Based on this product, the explosion of game products is almost unstoppable. These systems are open source. I will also establish a unified online download platform for these games to allow users to rate them.

In this way, there will be a unified large platform in this market. This platform can monitor the sales of those games and charge based on the data. This is a commercial product.

If we continue to add game ranking services, battle services, information communication services, and voice services on this platform, it may not be possible now, but with the continuous upgrading of Internet equipment, in the near future, these services They will all be products that can continuously create profits.

The kernel is open source and the engine is open source. However, in order to ensure information security and avoid being destroyed, these services are not necessarily open source. Then all companies using open source systems will be bound to this system unless they completely abandon my kernel. , otherwise, his user is my user.

The Internet era has arrived. In this era, every user is wealth and every user is a customer who can develop.

All information passes through you, and all user information is unilaterally transparent to you. I believe you here know better than me what an advantage it is for the military.

Is this a gold mine? "

Wang Xu stopped, with a devilish smile on his face, full of temptation.

“In addition, the development of game consoles and games requires electronic engineers, mechanical engineers, software programmers, game planners, copywriters, music, artists, 3D stylists, and motion capture. Most of these are high-paying senior positions.

According to economic theory, one high-paying position can bring at least three service-oriented employment opportunities. This is the high-end industry we need most.

Even playing games itself may not be a skill. Maybe all leaders know that I built a four-axis drone to shoot movies.

The operation of this kind of drone can be completely simulated with games. If you know how to play the game, you can operate the drone smoothly.

And as long as you equip your drone with mortar shells, you become a bomber pilot.

With a fire extinguisher, you become a firefighter.

Paired with a camera, you become a railway patrolman or cable lineman.

These things can be easily trained using games. At this time, do you still think that games are really just a toy to play with?

Now our remote control capabilities are not strong enough. With a little more complexity, we can remotely control cars, tanks, and even real fighter jets. These are not technically unachievable.

Is it really worth it to waste such a large market and such a broad prospect just because of the complaints of a few parents?

What's more, those parents who complained that their children couldn't resist the temptation of game consoles said that they were spiritual opium. Then can he resist playing chess, playing poker, and billiard hall? Cabaret?

I have seen people addicted to playing poker in college. They are much more addicted than playing games. Should they also be banned?

We didn’t have game consoles when we were young, so we all had a lot of time, but there were a few children who really studied and didn’t just go around playing like crazy.

Blaming the game console is actually a simple laziness, unwillingness to improve as a parent, unwilling to admit the fact that the child may be mediocre, and simply shirking responsibility.

Similarly, the government's blanket ban on the sale of game consoles is not a shirking of responsibility. Perhaps we can call this behavior lazy government.

I just want to say that maybe we should not miss out on the trillion-yuan world game market because of choking.

There is a rule in management called the principle of convenience for managers, that is, if there are two paths, one is convenient for managers and the other is convenient for people being managed, then the former must be chosen.

But such a choice will eventually lead to a reduction in possibilities, possible harms, and possible benefits. In the case of extreme deduction, if you reduce some here and cut off a piece there, the future benefits will be reduced to zero, and the so-called innovation will be out of the question.

Therefore, when formulating corporate management rules, one must consciously avoid such a choice, or at least conduct a lot of research and even try it. This is true for enterprises, and I believe it is also true for countries.

This is a law of human nature. I believe all leaders understand the principle better than me, so I won’t go into details.

The above is the fourth business model I have summarized, which uses core software, bundles important peripheral services, obtains a wide range of users, and finally uses these users to make money.

This is a thinking mode that can only be found in the new era of the Internet. It is based on the interconnection of a wider range of people. We can call it Internet thinking.

If I had to use one sentence to describe the business logic of this kind of thinking, it would be: the wool comes from the dog.

The game industry is just an example of this kind of thinking. There are many similar ones, such as operating systems, network servers, browsers, etc. They can all make similar industry plans with reference.

This requires our entire society to use their brains, open up some areas and let some people run it, so that we can have more and better ideas and results. "

After that, Wang Xu preached various possible business models one by one, including standard monopoly brought by system monopoly, hardware product sales driven by open source industry software, core patent licensing fees driven by open source circuits, open source algorithms to sell chips, open source standards Come sell products, etc.

Anyway, I briefly talked about all the various ways to market through some open source products that I could think of. When I finally looked at the time, it actually exceeded the time limit by more than ten minutes.

"This is all what I said today. Thank you leaders for taking the time to listen. Thank you all." Wang Xu quickly ended his speech, bowed, and stepped down.

"Wow, wow, wow!" The applause was thunderous, and it could be heard that the applause was not perfunctory. Wang Xu was impassioned and bluntly said that the leaders were lazy in politics, but they could still get applause, yes, yes.

Today's itinerary was given by Wang Xu, and then several GIT users, that is, representatives from universities and digital research institutes, each spoke for half an hour. In the last hour, leaders asked questions and these speakers answered.

There was no leader's speech from beginning to end. Apart from a few words from the host who introduced the guests at the beginning, there was nothing else. I really came here to listen to my opinions, which is quite interesting.

The remaining speakers were all scholars, and they introduced their own experiences in using various open source products on GIT. They basically recognized the value of the products on GIT, especially the impact of these products on their own research. Promoting effect.

However, problems such as lack of maintenance, many bugs, poor stability, and the dilemma of having to modify it yourself were also raised.

In short, the explanations given by these scholars are quite practical. They do not just say good things, and all the problems that should be addressed are explained one by one.

What impressed Wang Xu more was a chief engineer from XAC. They were recently working on Leopard and used a fully digital design solution. Wang Xu also helped a lot with that fully digital platform.

After more than half a year of development, their fully digital design platform has been officially launched. Although there are still various problems,

However, in the process of continuous exploration and solution, I became more proficient in understanding and using the entire platform, and finally formed a set of software products that are very suitable for my own system.

Now that it has been done, aircraft and software have gone hand in hand. Now they have begun to integrate a large number of other engineering software and incorporate various underlying calculation mathematical algorithms to form a more complete and convenient design tool.

This chief engineer has the highest evaluation of GIT. In his eyes, GIT seems to be an endless treasure, and they have obtained countless inspirations and tools from it.

Wang Xu was very pleased. Just for this reason, this GIT was not in vain. He knew that the experience of Leopard was also absorbed by Shen Huoyi and Cheng Luoma. Almost all aircraft manufacturers across the country came to learn from it. , the explosive development of Chinese aircraft in the later period, the digital internal strength training in this period was indispensable.

In the previous life, this feat relied on the products of the Dassault Company of Gaul and more than a dozen aviation computing products of the U.S. State. In this life, they seem to have used various mathematical and physical tools on GIT to create a lot of their own things. It seems that the localization rate has increased significantly.

In the final session, several speakers sat in the front, and then a group of leaders asked questions. Well, it felt a bit upside down.

But obviously today the leaders are determined not to say a word and just listen to you. Wang Xu doesn't care anymore. Let's chat. We are good at this.

The host asked questions, and the small notes were written one after another. It didn't look like a report to the leader, but more like a fan meeting.

"Wang Xu, this question is for you, why do you open source so many things instead of starting your own company to make money? According to you, the benefits are very valuable."

“Well, the first thing is that I don’t lack money, I really don’t lack it.

The second is that my wife is not short of money and can still support me. "

Laughing loudly, the leaders obviously also understood Wang Xu's specific situation.

The host said, "This is not your answer. Let's have a good chat. This question is of interest to everyone."

"Well, originally this thing was born to serve the "Super Audio Processing Computer" project that is still being carried out at Shuimu University. It was designed by me for my classmates and young teachers. It is a recording studio specially designed for me. s project.

Later, after many revisions and improvements at Shuimu University, and approval by superiors, it was finally upgraded to a real "supercomputer" project, referred to as the "supercomputer" project.

There is a lot of software development work in the "Supercomputing" project, and these codes require the cooperation of many departments, teachers, and students to complete. And these people do not have a unified office location or even unified working hours.

We urgently need a method that allows so many programmers to collaborate and integrate the codes of so many people. This is the origin of the GIT program and the GIT platform.

After that, I thought about many possible network applications, and then for those applications, I developed a lot of underlying basic applications.

But for most of them, I just wrote some planning and design documents, and most of the subsequent specific implementations were completed by countless university teachers and students through the mercenary union model.

The codes of these applications are all managed on GIT. It is impossible for me to be busy alone, and I cannot afford to hire a large group of people to work for me to maintain these codes.

So, I thought of open source.

The concept of open source was proposed by some universities in China a long time ago. However, there was no such thing as the Internet at that time, and everyone's understanding of open source was still limited to using carrier copies, but only the source code was copied.

In the past, computers were difficult to be compatible with each other. IBM's machine code programs could not run on DEC machines, so to communicate with each other, they could only use high-level language codes and then compile them on their own machines. "

When he said that this was a bit professional, there was nothing he could do about it. This was a professional habit. Wang Xu laughed twice and quickly pulled him back.

“Not being so professional, the earliest product came about like this anyway. It should be said that it was an accidental product, and it was born to solve the problem of code sharing and combination.

Now that the product is out, we have to find a way out for it. It’s not that I haven’t thought about commercial use. Two reasons made me give up the idea.

The first is that, to put it bluntly, our country does not have the soil for software companies to survive.

Not to mention the reluctance to buy software that I just mentioned, after all, there are still some government orders and orders from large companies that can make money.

The key is that our various software protections are very weak, and piracy is almost everywhere. A database worth tens of thousands of dollars can be bought in Zhongguancun for ten yuan, and an operating system worth several hundred dollars can be bought in ten versions for ten yuan.

In such an environment, almost no software company can survive. Unless it is a company that does customized development, in that model, you have to rely on placing orders and building relationships, but I can't do this because I don't have the skills.

I don’t blame our country for not doing anything. This kind of environment is actually inevitable at our stage of development, and it is also one of the ways the West suppresses backwardness.

These softwares will set a maximum price that they can afford according to their own market. This is a natural result of business laws.

But this price is sky-high in a third world country like ours. But the development of world technology has made the role of these software very important.

If you don't use it, you won't be able to improve efficiency and participate in international competition. If you use genuine products, you will first have to drain your money, and then you will be at a financial disadvantage and still unable to compete.

This is an endless loop with almost no solution. In the end, the only option is to use piracy.

From the perspective of software companies, current technical means cannot eradicate the problem of piracy at all, or the cost is too high and use is too troublesome.

So since they can't solve it, they will simply add fuel to the flames in a tacit understanding, destroy the software soil of those countries in advance, and strangle possible future competitors. This is the situation we are facing, and the business logic behind it.

The second thing is that I have developed a lot of software products and more creative ideas. It is completely insufficient and impossible to complete it on my own.

If we want to improve it, we have to recruit a lot of people. I am a private company and I have no targets. I can’t find enough talents in the market. How long will it take to complete the development?

If I can't do it myself, I have to find other ways.

It's useless, wasteful and a pity, so why not do something to help our country? I'm not bragging. I said it just now, I don't lack money, I don't lack a wife, and I don't even lack money for my wife. Isn't this a bit of a high pursuit?

Western software products rely on their own market to support themselves, and then use piracy to impact the markets of other countries. Not only us, they do this in all third world countries, causing these countries to completely lose the soil for software growth and have to rely on them to exist.

If things continue like this, we will have no chance at all in this field.

It is actually not that difficult to develop the first version of software, but it is very difficult to make this software commercially available and then roll it out and continuously improve it.

It can be said that the right time, right place and right people are almost indispensable. Once the time window is missed, unless the market is reshuffled due to the birth of some revolutionary products, there will be no chance at all. "

Wang Xu was talking eloquently, and all the leaders were somewhat attentive. They didn't look like they had held a meeting all afternoon.

During the question and answer period, it was not so serious anymore. It was time to drink tea and discuss.

The little girl also brought some snacks for everyone to replenish their strength.

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