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Chapter 171: The only way to relieve worries is to draw cakes

The old Zhou in Guo Jingyun's mouth was a tall, thin man in his thirties who looked like a scholar. After hearing Guo Jingyun's words, Zhou Zhijun shook his head humbly, "Those are just false names given by peers because of their love. It can’t be true!”

The person in front of me is Zhou Zhijun, known as one of the five outstanding programmers in mainland China. He is one of the earliest batch of elite technicians in China. Others include the Three Kings of Zhongguancun, and the founder of Kingsoft, Qiubo, is also one of them.

Being able to be praised by peers as the Three Kings of Zhongguancun and the Five Outstanding Programmers in the world. The skills of these people are absolutely top-notch, and they are the kind of people who can create a set of software by one person.

Zhou Zhijin is best known for his development of a set of "natural code" input methods. In his previous life, Microsoft's Shuangpin input method was improved after authorization from natural code.

This input method is simpler than the Wubi input method and more accurate than the current Pinyin input method. It can touch more than a hundred words per minute. This efficiency is simply mythical nowadays, and Wubi may not be able to achieve it. Such efficiency.

But everything has pros and cons. The price of this input method is too high, 300 yuan for a set, that’s right, 300 yuan for an input method system!

If you can afford it, this input method is mainly used by companies in the laser typesetting, printing and other industries. In addition, there are some old users who are not short of money and have become accustomed to this input method. As for new users, they have not heard of it at all. I have already mentioned this input method.

But the natural code input method did have a great time in the past few years, and the sales volume was pretty good for a time. But as is the common problem in the software industry now, there are too many pirated copies. If a piece of Kingsoft software sells hundreds of thousands of genuine copies, it is already considered a sales volume. It’s high, but there are more than a million pirated copies, and the same goes for natural codes. The coding of this input method has long been “referenced”, and there are so many pirated copies that they can no longer sell at a high price.

For Zhou Zhijun, the most critical thing is not the problem of piracy and poor sales. He is currently busy fighting a lawsuit for the patent and copyright of natural code, and has invested a lot of savings in this effort.

Worried about the lawsuit, his savings had been exhausted, and the copyright of the natural code was also in dispute. Without much thought, Zhou Zhiyi agreed to Guo Jingyun's invitation.

But at the end of the day, Zhou Zhijun was reluctant to give up the natural code he had created. He was hesitant for a while. He really put all his effort into this input method. Even though natural code was no longer the mainstream input method in his previous life, He also continues to update the version for those few old users.

Today, Zhou Zhiyi and Guo Jingyun also came to Hanxi to meet Li Dongling, but when they arrived at the door, he was somewhat repelled.

When Kingsoft WPS was almost completely defeated by Microsoft Office software, Kingsoft still did not admit defeat. Qiu Bojun was not a patient person, but he was very patient when it came to software development. He did not hesitate to push WPS to rebuild and spent several years rebuilding it. Jinshan.

Seeing Zhou Zhijun's hesitant look, Guo Jingyun said directly, "Old Zhou, I will see Mr. Li later. I will ask Mr. Li for help and ask Dongling Hi-tech's legal department to help you litigate the case. Are you still worried about returning to nature? Code copyright?

The two sides are currently fighting in court. This lawsuit has been going on for more than a year. Zhou Zhijun is exhausted from being involved, and his savings have been depleted.

Zhou Zhijun is the founder of Natural Code, but a few years ago, he and two others established a company called Chaoxiang. This company just started selling printers, but it couldn't compete with Sitong. Later, it transformed into production and sales. Natural code, at its best, can earn more than two million a year.

As the inventor of Natural Code and one of the founders of Chaoxiang Company, Zhou Zhijin couldn't get R&D funding and was kicked out of the management team. His uncle couldn't bear it, and Zhou Zhijin couldn't bear it no matter how good his temper was. Now, they publicly bombarded Chaoxiang Company in newspapers, demanding that the copyright of natural codes be taken back. Chaoxiang Company is now making money by selling this stuff, how could they let it go? The two sides are at each other's throats.

After Tianya.com acquired the Pinyin input method from Wang Xiaolong and Zhu Shoutao, Guo Jingyun saw Zhou Zhijin's lawsuit with Chaoxiang Company and immediately approached Zhou Zhijin, asking him to be the person in charge of Tianya.com's Pinyin input method project!

At this moment, Zhou Zhijun came to Yuhe Leisure Resort. He knew that as long as he stepped through the door in front of him and became the director of the input method of Tianya.com, his name might be much louder than before, and he might even be as famous as before. Wang Yongmin, the founder who developed the Wubi input method, has the same name, and his salary is much higher than before.

Anyone who can create a set of software by himself is a stubborn person. Zhou Zhijun is like this, and so is Qiu Bojun from Jinshan.

If this continues, then maybe Chaoxiang really has a chance to become an existence like Wangma Company that sells the Wubi input method. But just like Ni Guangnan at Lenovo, Zhou Zhijin, who is also a technician, also suffered from the same problems at Chaoxiang Company. encounter.

The most critical thing now is Tianya.com's input method project. This is the project requested by Mr. Li. As long as you complete it, the lawsuit with Chaoxiang Company will be nothing at all, and even natural code will have a chance to live again! "

After hearing Guo Jingyun's words, Zhou Zhiyi finally nodded in agreement. Seeing this, Guo Jingyun finally breathed a sigh of relief and pulled Zhou Zhiyi into the Yuhe Leisure Resort.

Like Chen Tao, Lu Wenhua and others, Guo Jingyun also graduated from Hanxi Jiaotong University. After graduating from Hanxi Jiaotong University, he chose to go to Yanjing for graduate school, and then joined a foreign software company. In less than a year, he was hired by that foreign company. Domestic revenue has more than doubled!
Guo Jingyun understands technology and is good at marketing. He has a well-rounded personality and is very popular. He has more or less friendships with many domestic technology giants. After the establishment of Dongling Hi-Tech Internet Division, Guo Jingyun was hired to serve as the general manager of the Internet department. Li Dongling was born in Hanxi Jiaotong University. It is inevitable that more people from Hanxi Jiaotong University will be used. Many people who graduated from Hanxi Jiaotong University did not choose to enter municipal units or state-owned factories. Entering Dongling High-tech has become their first choice. It is foreseeable that in the future, there will be more and more people from Hanxi Jiaotong University in Tangling Hi-tech, and Hanxi Jiaotong University will definitely become one of the largest factions within Tangling Hi-tech!

Yuhe Leisure Resort is still under construction, but after entering, the scale inside still surprised Zhou Zhijun, especially the swimming pool, resort hotel and other facilities that are still under construction, which obviously cost a lot.

Guo Jingyun took Zhou Zhiyi directly to the gymnasium of Yuhe Leisure Resort. The gymnasium, restaurant and gym are one of the several buildings built in the resort now.

The five-story gymnasium includes a basketball court with all modern facilities on the first floor, as well as table tennis, badminton, roller rink, tennis court, bowling court, etc. These things are considered rare in Pingyang today.

After entering, Zhou Zhijun saw that there were many people inside, especially the basketball court, table tennis court, and roller skating court. There were three floors inside and three floors outside. There were many people surrounding them, and there were cheers and cheers.

Most of these people are employees of various departments of Tanglin High-tech. This leisure resort is open to all employees of Tanglin High-tech. They are allowed to bring their families to play. The fee is only a cost price, which is used to maintain the equipment. Salaries are paid to resort personnel.

In addition, bowling, tennis, etc. are all unique in Binh Duong, so even though it is still a long drive away from the city, many employees of Tanglin High-tech will still come here with their families on their days off to experience it. To this end, Donglin Hi-Tech has specially mobilized several buses. The fares are charged at market prices. These lines are quite popular.

Now, although Yuhe Leisure Resort is nominally open to Tanglin Hi-tech employees, some personnel from Binh Duong municipal units still come in in the name of cooperating with Tanglin Hi-Tech. This kind of thing is unavoidable, but no matter which unit or department they are from When people come here, they have to pay for their purchases. If it were free, then the Yuhe Leisure Resort would not be able to survive.

Guo Jingyun took Zhou Zhiyi to the top floor. The top floor was a bowling alley and a tennis court. There were obviously few people here today. On the one hand, the cost of these two venues was high, and on the other hand, the person using this place today was Li Dongling.

The person in charge of managing the Yuhe Leisure Resort, who belongs to the Logistics Department of Tanglin Hi-tech, knows how to keep the venue no matter how discerning he is.

Arriving next to the tennis court, Guo Jingyun saw Li Dongling playing sparring with Yao Luoying on the court. Both of them were sweating slightly and had obviously been playing for several minutes.

Seeing Guo Jingyun coming over, Li Dongling stopped his racket and walked towards the sidelines. Guo Jingyun handed two towels to Li Dongling and Yao Luoying, then smiled at Yao Luoying and said, "Madam, Chairman, I didn't disturb you, did I?!"

"What are you talking about!" Yao Luoying blushed and said to Guo Jingyun with a straight face. She couldn't help but look at Li Dongling, but she was not angry in her heart.

Guo Jingyun has nothing to fear. He and many senior executives within Tanglin Hi-Tech support Yao Luoying to become the wife of the head of Tanglin Hi-Tech. It is better to have someone who knows the roots and become the wife of the chairman of Tanglin Hi-Tech than to appear out of nowhere. A person who didn't know the basics ended up making Dongling Hi-Tech a mess. Many companies died due to internal strife between the founders and their spouses.

"Sooner or later!" Guo Jingyun said with a smile.

Hearing Guo Jingyun's words, Li Dongling just glanced at him, but did not show much expression. Yao Luoying said to a few people, "You guys talk first, I'll let the restaurant prepare the food!"

"Mr. Zhou, welcome to join Tangling Hi-Tech. I have heard of your name a long time ago!"

Li Dongling reached out to Zhou Zhijun. This was not empty talk. As the earliest batch of technical experts, Qiu Bojun and others had amazing influence in the industry, otherwise they would not have recruited Rebus and other figures.

"I hope that I will not disappoint Mr. Li's expectations. The natural code has already been defeated!" Zhou Zhijin said with a wry smile.

Li Dongling looked at Zhou Zhijun and felt that the natural code input method had almost become his inner demon, making him unable to get out of it.

"The Wubi input method is not the end of the input method, nor will the natural code. New input methods will continue to emerge to replace the original input method. In the future, there may even be Internet input methods, voice input methods, artificial intelligence input methods, etc. Wait, maybe new technologies will emerge. The input method can turn text into language, and language into text, or even into dozens of dialects, foreign languages, automatic translation...

Input methods may create different sparks from the Internet and even artificial intelligence. You don’t have to give up on natural codes, but you shouldn’t give up on the stars and the sea! "

(End of this chapter)