Rebirth 98, the rise starts from ripping off Microsoft

"Hey, you are still worried that I will be cheated. Could it be that you are attracted to me?"

Lu Yiming joked.

Of course he knew that the phone call was absolutely genuine.

"Stop being narcissistic. Who would fall in love with you? I'm not blind."

Lin Yuzhen snorted softly, pouted her lips, turned around and left.

Lu Yiming followed behind and joked with a smile: "There is no best, brother, you can't get a man."

"I don't care!"

The two of them arrived at Zhu Hanwen's house. As luck would have it, just as Lu Yiming entered the house, the phone rang as promised and kept ringing in the living room.

Zhu Hanwen urged: "Hurry up and answer the phone. The person on the other side speaks English. If you don't understand, ask Teacher Sun to be your translator."

Compared with Zhu Hanwen's impatience, Lu Yi was obviously much more calm. He walked to the landline in a leisurely manner, and Zhu Hanwen's instructions sounded next to him again: "Remember to turn on the speakerphone."

Sure enough, gossip is the essence of human beings.

Lu Yiming shrugged and had no choice but to press the speakerphone and said in a frivolous tone: "Hello, little Gai Gai, I am the Lu Yiming you are looking for."

On the other side of the phone, Bill Gates yawned and said in a bad tone: "Young man, you are very courageous."

It is now one o'clock at noon in the East Eighth District time. Washington, where Microsoft's headquarters is located, is in the West Fifth District. It is thirteen hours later than the East Eighth District time in summer, so it is just past twelve o'clock in the evening on Bill Gates' side.

If it weren't for this call, he would have fallen asleep long ago.

Sun Jiatong was just about to translate for Lu Yiming when she heard Lu Yiming speak standard American English. Judging from his fluent reply style, his speaking ability was actually better than that of her, an English teacher.

Facing Bill Gates' obviously angry tone, Lu Yiming looked calm: "There is no way, it is too difficult to talk to Mr. Gates in a normal way, so I can only come up with this solution."

On the other end of the phone, Bill Gates had the illusion that he was talking to another industry leader.

Lu Yiming is so calm!

It's so calm that even Bill Gates can't figure it out.

You know, he is the richest man in the world and the absolute overlord of the software industry!

In a society where money is paramount, he is the uncrowned king!

Bill Gates has long been accustomed to ordinary people crawling at his feet and being groveling when facing him.

However, after all, he has been the world's richest man for several years. Although Bill Gates was thinking a lot in his heart, he did not show it at all.

After taking a deep breath, Bill Gates adjusted his emotions and then said: "Tell me, what do you want from me?"

In his opinion, the most likely reason why Lu Yiming worked so hard to apply patches and poisons was because he wanted to make a deal with Microsoft.

This is a businessman’s intuition and logical reasoning consistent with the facts.

After Microsoft was founded for so many years, Bill Gates, a powerful hacker, has not never encountered it, so besides being angry, he is not panicked at all.

Lu Yiming also followed Bill Gates' wishes and directly stated his conditions without any twists and turns: "Mr. Gates is really quick to talk. Well, I won't ask for more, 300,000 US dollars. I promise,

You will definitely get value for your money.”

"Three hundred thousand dollars?!"

Bill Gates, who was sitting on a wicker chair, even stood up, his tone full of surprise and anger.

"It's just a few bug fixes, and you want me to pay you $300,000!?"

Bill Gates was so angry that he almost yelled.

He does not lack this little money, but as a qualified capitalist, he is very good at settling accounts.

In Silicon Valley, the annual salary of an ordinary programmer is only 40,000 to 50,000 US dollars. For elite level, the annual salary is 70,000 US dollars. If you hire a team of three or four programmers to patch it, it can be done in a few months anyway. How do you calculate it?

It doesn’t cost $300,000!

"You are blackmailing, do you know that?"

"Oh, the richest man is joking. I won't do anything illegal."

"You just hacked my computer yesterday!"

"That's just a joke. The richest man in the world, wouldn't he be serious with a little-known young man like me?"

After a few words, Bill Gates finally realized that the young man on the other end of the phone was very cunning, just like a reincarnation of a non-stick pan, slippery and very tricky.

"Three hundred thousand dollars is too much."

Bill Gates' tone was cold, he didn't want to spend this wronged money.

This is enough to buy four Ferrari F355s!

Bill Gates's rejection was completely expected by Lu Yiming. If Bill Gates had given the money just as he promised, he would have really seen a living ghost.

I saw Lu Yiming holding the phone and said calmly: "Three hundred thousand dollars is not much at all, Mr. Gates. After all, Microsoft is a great company and there cannot be any flaws in technology. What if others find out?

, there is a vulnerability in the newly launched win98, and it was fixed by an unknown person first, what will the users think?"

"They will question whether Microsoft's technology is still leading. And how can an industry monopolist that cannot maintain its technological leadership maintain the legitimacy of its monopoly? By the way, I heard that Microsoft is still dealing with antitrust issues from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Litigation, right?”

Although Lu Yiming spoke in an understatement, Bill Gates heard a strong threat from Lu Yiming's words.

That’s right!

It's a threat!

An ordinary citizen from the Xia Kingdom is a threat to the world's richest man!

This sounds like a fairy tale.

However, fairy tales do happen in reality.

Although it was not stated explicitly, the undisguised threat in the words was approaching step by step, and Lu Yiming almost put a knife on Microsoft's neck.

Bill Gates felt as if his lungs were turning into a volcano, and the feeling of being blackmailed was unbearable.

It’s only 300,000 US dollars. It’s not a big amount, but it’s extremely insulting!

"What if I say no?"

Bill Gates' tone became even colder, as if the frost and snow in the cold winter had crossed the cables under the Pacific Ocean and blown directly in front of Lu Yiming.

After all, he is a top boss, and not everyone can bear the anger of the richest man.

Lin Yuzhen and others were anxious and uneasy, not even daring to breathe.

On the contrary, Lu Yiming, who faced the wrath of Bill Gates, looked very calm: "Perhaps Mr. Clark will be interested in my offer, which is only 300,000 US dollars. He must be willing to exchange it for a knife to stab Microsoft."

Jim Clark!

Founder of Netscape!

Because his own browser has been blocked by Microsoft, he is currently looking for trouble with Microsoft. This is a hatred involving more than one billion dollars, and the revenge for killing his father is nothing more than that.

Bill Gates pinched his eyebrows, feeling on the verge of rage.