Riding the wind of rebirth

"Dad! I'm back!" Mai Xiaomiao smiled and threw herself into the arms of the handsome middle-aged man.

"It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back!" The handsome middle-aged man is none other than McGee: "Xiao Miao, how did you become like this? Daddy almost can't recognize you!"

"What has changed?"

"You've become so beautiful, not like the little girl who only focused on doing homework before." Mai Jeff hugged Mai Xiaomiao and said, "You are always so free to come and go, too free! Is it difficult for you to call me or mom?"

"I just want to surprise you!" Mai Xiaomiao said coquettishly, "Dad, let me introduce you to someone, Zhou Zhi, whose English name is George Darwin."

"Hello, uncle." Zhou Zhi bowed slightly to Mai Jeff. Mai Jeff was a younger and thinner version of Mai Mingdong, with slicked back hair and wearing glasses. Perhaps because the building was well air-conditioned, he wore a suit and shirt of good quality even in summer, and even had a bow tie around his neck. His demeanor and temperament were first-class.

"Oh? You are Zhou Zhi?" McGeve looked Zhou Zhi up and down and took the initiative to extend his hand to him: "I heard about you from Xiao Miao's grandfather. Thank you for taking care of our Xiao Miao during this period of time."

"No, no." Zhou Zhi quickly stretched out his hand and shook hands with McGeve, saying with a smile: "We are taking care of each other. Xiao Miao helps me more."

"Does mom know you're back?" McGeoff let go of Mai Xiaomiao's hand and asked, "Shall we go back to Long Island for dinner tonight?"

“No need…” Mai Xiaomiao said, “We have an appointment to watch a movie tonight. Besides, the round trip to Long Island will delay your and mom’s rest and work. We will be in the city for the next few days and we will stay at the Hilton Central Hotel.”

"Oh, by the way, you didn't come here just to visit us, did you?" Mai Jeff asked Mai Xiaomiao, "I don't know you yet?"

"I'm here to accompany Zhou Zhi." Mai Xiaomiao said with a smile, "It's related to the dispute between the Digital Alliance and the Music Practitioners Association."

"There's been a lot of noise in the Times recently." McGeoff frowned and said, "Many big stars are involved in the dispute. How come this matter is related to George?"

"Our company is one of the earliest initiators of the Digital Alliance," Zhou Zhi explained. "The main reason is that the major streaming protocols and network players currently used by the Digital Alliance are all authorized by our group for intellectual property rights. Although the dispute between the Digital Alliance and the Music Practitioners Association is a content dispute, as the initiator, we still have the obligation to pay attention to it."

"Your group?"

"Yes, it's the Clover Group, which is controlled by AXA Fund. Didn't Academician Mai mention it to you?"

"Clover Group!" McGeoff understood. "The process of the series of intellectual property packages you have controlled is a very exciting business merger and acquisition case! It has allowed a company that lacks an intellectual property foundation to gradually grow into a leader in the domestic and even global software industry. It can be used as a classic case in our business school!"

"Ah?" Zhou Zhi always thought he was very low-key, but he didn't expect that the professors of the business school on the other side of the ocean had already paid attention to him: "Our Clover Group should not be well-known overseas, right?"

"Hahaha..." McGeff laughed. "What's the old saying in China? If you don't want others to know, you must not do it. Since its establishment, Clover Group has been based on the path of global intellectual property competition. Hanwen Font Library is the first Chinese software to go abroad, has extensive intellectual property rights, and has gained a large market and profits. It has also opened the door to cooperation with relevant international organizations and large companies such as IBM and Microsoft. How could it not attract our attention?"

"Uncle really knows our company well." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "But I really didn't expect it."

"The thinking of your company leaders is very clear and precise." Mai Jeff expressed great admiration: "The path you are taking is completely different from that of Chinese software companies. From the beginning, you have been based on the international market and served international information product suppliers. You seem to be the first Chinese software product supplier to discover that undertaking outsourcing business can bring considerable profits." "The main thing is to learn technology, obtain agreement authorization, and understand international rules." Zhou Zhi was secretly surprised, and sweat was about to fall on his forehead, but he smiled shyly and said: "Money is secondary."

McGeve smiled and said, "Indeed, these are not the most important things, right? The most important thing is to use open source software to build your own information system discourse power, and build the corresponding discourse power at each level of the information system, right?"

Zhou Zhi was really horrified now. The Clover Group had been in business for so long, but many employees within the group didn't have much of a concept in their minds. But now McGeff, whom he met for the first time, had revealed everything.

There are actually many ways to divide information systems, but the most famous ones are probably the OSI structure, TCP/IP structure, and the five-layer protocol architecture.

In fact, they are all similar, starting from the bottom physical layer, up to the data link layer, network layer, transport layer, and application layer.

Physical layer: ensures that data can be transmitted on various physical media and provides a reliable environment for data transmission.

Basically, it can be understood as a device that can process electrical signals and optical signals, a high-speed railway and train for the signals to run back and forth.

The data link layer is usually referred to as the link layer. When two adjacent nodes transmit data, the data link layer assembles the IP datagrams handed down by the network layer into frames and transmits the frames on the link between the two adjacent nodes.

It is like the shipping center loads the goods into carriages and assigns numbers to them so that they can be combined for shipment.

The network layer is responsible for providing communication services for different hosts in the packet network and delivering data to the target host by selecting the appropriate route. When sending data, the network layer encapsulates the segments or user data generated by the transport layer into packets or packages for transmission.

Equivalent to a train dispatching center.

The transport layer is responsible for providing communication services for the processes in the two hosts, mainly through transmission services through communication protocols, just like combining carriages into a train.

The application layer is the highest layer of network protocols. Its main task is to complete specific network applications through the interaction between processes. The application layer protocol defines the rules for communication and interaction between applications or processes.

It is just like passengers have to buy tickets to get on the bus, and once on the bus you will be taken to a certain place, and you have to get off at that place, and so on and so forth. Traffic rules and traffic functions.

Each level will involve countless structural methods and intellectual property packages, which will form a very complex three-dimensional structure as a whole. Each level will have many related products. Sometimes we have to understand it the other way around. Many products themselves contain multiple levels in this system.

It is difficult for a company to say that it owns the entire industrial line of products for this system, from the underlying chip manufacturing, to the protocol composition, bus combination design, operating system, language development tools, and application development, a complete intellectual property package.

Many companies can only focus on one direction and make in-depth efforts.

Only Clover took the path of "wanting both". (End of this chapter)