Revisiting Future Path

046 English Version

Observing the rising curve of various data of the seed download artifact, Wei Dongsheng is in a very good mood.

Wei Dongsheng registered the vest number at will, logged into the technical forum where Lei Jiafei went shirtless, and simply read a few hot posts.

Different netizens have different focus points. In addition to the technical long talk about the bitstream protocol, there are also many popular and interesting discussions.

For example, this discussion.

A domestic user posted a question: "The BitTorrent protocol published by the Open Source Seed Download Artifact says that the idea comes from the BitTorrent software produced by Bram_Cohen. I checked and found no relevant information at all. Do overseas students know about Bram_Cohen and BitTorrent software? Original version What does BitTorrent look like and what functions does it have? Who is more efficient than the torrenting artifact?"

For the content from the second floor to the fifth floor, either ask for relevant information or help call familiar overseas friends.

The netizen on the sixth floor is an international student, and he replied in doubt: "Which country is Bram_Cohen? I did not retrieve BitTorrent."

The seventh to the seventeenth floors were all confused, and no one revealed the secret until the eighteenth floor: "If you want to know BitTorrent, ask me."

Netizens on the 18th floor chatted with friends on the 18th floor for a few minutes and posted relevant information: "BitTorrent is a free software only released in October 2002. Even in the United States, BitTorrent's spread is very limited, only in small circles. Dissemination. I have some friends who follow Japanese anime. They find it difficult to find genuine resources. They accidentally discovered that this software can download videos and audios online, and suddenly became a loyal user of BitTorrent. However, BitTorrent is not as powerful as you imagined. No need to look forward to the original version. Compared with the torrent artifact, BitTorrent is rough like a primitive bone knife. My friends in the anime circle, after trying the torrent artifact, have all mercilessly uninstalled BitTorrent, and worshipped that the torrent artifact is indeed an artifact. ."

Netizens on the 18th floor released the BitTorrent software and its source code again. This hot post was then turned into a technical comparison analysis post between BitTorrent and the seed download artifact.

This discussion gave rise to a new hot discussion: "The seed download artifact was produced by Yanjing Chunqiu Software Co., Ltd. When Chunqiu Software declared its copyright, it said that the reason for thoroughly publishing the bitstream protocol is because the idea of ​​the bitstream protocol originated from Bram_Cohen. Spring Software Company said that there is no Bram_Cohen contact information, and there is no way to obtain authorization in advance, so it can only publicly apologize for taking without notice, and then invite Bram_Cohen to improve the bitstream protocol together. As far as I know, Bram_Cohen is to develop BitTorrent software , Has been semi-unemployed, and life is very difficult. Who in the jar is familiar with Chunqiu Software Company, are they really willing to hire Bram_Cohen?"

Most of the replies to this post are not nutritious.

Turning to the latest reply, Wei Dongsheng found that this reply came from Lei Jiafei's vest. Lei Jiafei provided the host with his own contact information under the vest number: "I just tried to join Chunqiu Software. I have here the landline of Lei Jiafei, the person in charge of the seed download artifact of Chunqiu Software. I will chat with you later. You can call for time."

At the same time, the phone on Wei Dongsheng’s waist rang. It was Lei Jiafei’s call: "Mr. Wei, I have analyzed the technical level of Bram_Cohen. In our company, he is definitely the second best after you. The company will recruit Bram_Cohen."

Bram_Cohen is the true founder of the BitTorrent protocol.

Wei Dongsheng's copying of mature technologies in the future is based on the rational consideration of capitalists' pursuit of profit. Personally, if conditions permit, Wei Dongsheng respects Bram_Cohen's copyright, and respects his smart labor in creating the BitTorrent era. If Bram_Cohen is really embarrassed, if Bram_Cohen is really willing to join Chunqiu Software, of course Wei Dongsheng readily agrees to accept him.

Wei Dongsheng immediately promised Lei Jiafei: "If he is willing to come, we will definitely want it."

Lei Jiafei euphemistically expressed difficulty: "The salary of American programmers is relatively high."

Wei Dongsheng did not understand the market in 2002, and asked: "How high is it?"

Lei Jiafei: "I have conducted simple online surveys these days. California, the hottest Internet industry, has an average salary of $113K per year for programmers in Northern California, and an average salary of $94K per year for programmers in Southern California. If we want to hire Bram_Cohen , At least give him an annual salary of $100K."

K means thousand.

How much K is used to represent salary is a derivative culture of a comma for every three digits in the English environment. The first comma is K, which means thousands; the second comma is M, which means millions. 100K US dollars is one hundred thousand US dollars, and the current exchange rate is converted to 827,000 yuan.

The average annual salary of programmers in China, even if limited to Yenching, did not rise to 150,000 yuan until 2016. Even if it is a more popular project, skilled core members usually have an annual salary of only five to six million yuan, which is not as good as the US market in 2002.

This is also the side manifestation of China's human resource cost advantage.

At this moment, the highest salary for programmers of Spring Software is only 20,000 yuan a month. If Bram_Cohen is rushed in, it will definitely break the salary structure in an instant. It is very easy to attract the unbalanced mentality of employees, and even criticize Wei Dongsheng for fawning on foreigners and exploiting domestic programmers, only willing to pay high salaries for foreign programmers.

These worries did not stay too much in Wei Dongsheng's mind.

Bram_Cohen, as the father of BT, should be measured by the industry's technical leader standard. Technologists are the gods of a company. No matter how big a company is, the gold content of a technologist is high. The annual salary of a technologist and that of an ordinary programmer are never on the same level.

Furthermore, Wei Dongsheng invaded Bram_Cohen's intangible capital that created the seed age, feeling guilty in his heart. It seems that legendary plug-ins and legendary private servers infringe on the rights and interests of Shanda Networks, firstly due to the environment of the times, and secondly, the Chen Tianqiao brothers will never sink because of this. It should be the rich or the rich. Therefore, Wei Dongsheng feels guilty about Shanda, but not strong. And if Bram_Cohen has a hard life and doesn't have the BitTorrent honor, it may be difficult to stand up in the future. Wei Dongsheng feels more guilty towards him and wants to help him as best he can.

Don't say that the annual salary of 800,000 yuan is three million yuan. Bram is also worth hiring.

Wei Dongsheng considered the pros and cons and quickly replied to Nolei Jiafei: "If he is willing to come, don't say 100K, or 150K, I will give it too."

Lei Jiafei: "I understand."

With Wei Dongsheng delegating power, Lei Jiafei immediately communicated with the other party on the phone to coordinate the recruitment of Bram_Cohen.

Wei Dongsheng continued to search the forum and found the forum users who released the BitTorrent software, and a new topic was raised: "I spread the gospel of the seed download artifact to the American Emperor. Now a group of students say that they can't understand the Chinese interface, and they are clamoring to translate the Chinese interface. In the past, I only knew that there was a Sinicization group, which Chineseized English and Japanese into a Chinese interface; now that I have witnessed the rise of the Englishization group, a bunch of pure-bred Yankees want to translate Chinese into English interface, which simply subverts my three views Oh my god, my god, what should I do? I infringe the copyright of Chunqiu Software without my conscience, or correct their outlook on life and teach them to learn profound Chinese?"

This post is very topical, and the followers laughed and expressed their opinions:

"They must be taught Chinese."

"Required, Chinese."

"Copyright protection starts with you."

"Teach Chinese, teach pinyin, start with a, o, e, i, u, and learn."

"I think "The Nunchaku" is good."

"Listen to a nunchaku and ask: What's the grammar of humhhhh?"

"When I hear the grammar, I have to stand up and say a few words. When I think of it, Mardan, the Yankees don't understand the present perfect tense and the past perfect tense. The English test papers are stunned by the bake of us. The first year in Massachusetts, When the Yankees can't distinguish between the present perfect tense and the past perfect tense in spoken English, I subconsciously want to come forward and testify. Hey, don’t mention it’s embarrassing. In the future, we will also test grammar and die them."

"Wait for the completion of the Chinese test paper, the difference between Da Zhuan and Xiao Zhuan, and the difference between Cantonese and Hokkien."

A few serious discussants opened a new post to make suggestions: "Unlike NetAnts, the seed download artifact is universally applicable to all countries, and there is every reason to rush out of Asia and go to the world. Just now I am about to apply for a friend from Spring Software Company. , Hurry up and make suggestions with Chunqiu Software Company and quickly release the English version. Before plagiarism software appears, quickly seize the international market."

As this user said, the technical content of the seed download artifact can not only crush domestic counterparts, but also continue to crush international counterparts.

However, Wei Dongsheng has no intention of leading Spring and Autumn Software to open up the international market.

There are two main reasons.

First, it is extremely difficult for download tools to make money from downloading business. The core user experience of download tools is download speed, and the price of maintaining high-speed downloads is to squeeze the network environment. The popular download software can be summarized as four "simple interface, no messy ads, smooth operation, and fast download speed". Unfortunately, these core experiences perfectly prevent download software companies from making profit. If downloading software companies want to make a profit, they can only provoke users' psychological bottom line time and time again, making users more and more disgusted by it. When new products with better experience are discovered, they will immediately uninstall old people and replace them with new ones.

Article two, copyright issues in European and American countries. For example, the Musicshare software developed by Napster was sued by the Recording Industry Association of America in December 1999, forcing Napster to shut down the circulation of all songs in July 2001. Wait, there are too many similar copyright cases.

The promotion of seed download artifacts to Europe and the United States will not only make it difficult to rely on the download function to make a profit, but will immediately usher in continuous lawsuits from stakeholders.

This is undoubtedly losing business.

Wei Dong went to the international market because of his idle pain.

However, Wei Dongsheng is not willing to spend his energy to occupy the international market, but he will not give up the market to other competitors. Therefore, Wei Dongsheng rejected the suggestion of Chunqiu Software Company to produce the English version of the seed download artifact, but anonymously produced the English version of the seed download artifact, and at this time it had been hiddenly uploaded to a British forum.

Aware that there is already a market demand in European and American countries, Wei Dongsheng immediately sacrificed the English version of the seed download artifact and replied to these netizens: "It is too late for the host to spread Chinese, and the English version of the seed download artifact has appeared. Look, this is a British forum. link."

The verification link was correct, and the forum immediately set off a new round of uproar. The horrified seed download artifact appeared in an English version so quickly.

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