Rewrite the Technological Landscape

Chapter 106 Open source

This adjustment of the company has gradually stabilized after a two-day running-in period. For the old team, they all have their own jobs, but for several new teams, Meng Qian needs to release tasks for them.

The communications development department has already known its work and started to get busy. The next step is the work arrangement of the industrial software development department, system development department and application software development department.

Meng Qian first called people from the industrial software development department into the conference room. Although the industrial software development department is a newly established department, it has many old faces because many people are transferred from the previous commercial software development department. .

The last CAD software development was a practice given to them by Meng Qian, and selected some good people from them. This time, the industrial software development department not only has programmers, but also introduced talents in the industrial field. As for why it is done Industrial software must understand industry, and one point should be able to explain roughly.

That is the core of industrial software is simulation. Since simulation is required, you don’t even know what it really looks like, so what do you use to study simulation.

The purpose of the company’s establishment of the Industrial Software Department this time seems to be very clear to everyone, that is to challenge EDA software, but Meng Qian did not act according to everyone’s guess. “The next thing the Industrial Software Development Department will do is to challenge EDA software. It is based on the variability technology as the core, to study a comprehensive general EDA software architecture, and then open source.”

“Open source?” The people in the industrial software development department are all confused, “Why?”

“When you were developing CAD software before, what was your biggest feeling?”

Several people who had been involved in the development looked at each other before, and one of them was a little unwilling to say, “I am powerless.”

Others agreed with this statement with silence.

Meng Qian also subconsciously nodded, “In industrial software, our backwardness is not only the backwardness of software development capabilities, but also the backwardness of talents. Once variable technology is popularized, our gap will be widened. But now there is an opportunity before us.

Industrial software open source boom. ”

There is a saying Meng Qian can’t tell everyone that this opportunity is only four short years. Historically, the industrial software open source boom lasted from 2000 to 2004, after which it was pressed down by several industrial software giants. Never looked up again.

“You don’t have to feel wronged.” Noting everyone’s expressions, Meng Qian comforted, “What we are after is results, and in order to achieve the results we want, it is normal to use appropriate strategies.

The purpose of open source is very simple. When we, and even our China, lack the ability to be an international giant, try to use the power of open source, but open source is not the end, it is just the beginning.

When the power of open source helps us make up for our own shortcomings, we must devote ourselves to studying these shortcomings. We must stand on the basis of open source power and carry out secondary development. Finally, we need to take out our own EDA software. Build a comprehensive EDA software collection, I say this, do you understand? ”

Although Meng Qian also wants to lead his employees to harden the EDA software giants, this field is indeed not solved by rebirth advantages. Variable technology is the fourth revolution in industrial software. After this revolution, China has been People can’t see the taillights of the car.

In 2019, in the field of EDA software development, Huaxia only had a 5% market share. The first shot of the ZTE incident was EDA software, which is an area where Huaxia is super backward.

In 2001, variable technology has begun to develop again. With this technology alone, Meng Qian can be installed in the country, but when he goes abroad, it is really difficult to rely on this technology that is not much advanced in the world. Change the situation.

And this field is not like the field of lithography machine and mobile communication. Now there is really no resource that can be integrated in the country, and Meng Qian is also very helpless.

As for Meng Qian himself, the prerequisite for the intelligent industry back then was to have a mature team. Now it’s okay to lead everyone to do simple EDA software. If you want to fight against the bigwigs in the EDA software industry on your own, then Meng Qian may be true He looks down on this area that can make China lag behind to be beaten by others.

Fortunately, this explanation of Meng Qian changed the emotions of the employees. After understanding that open source is only the first step, and the subsequent secondary development is everyone’s top priority, many people’s excitement returned, but there were some immediately. Asked a very realistic question, “Where do we go to open source? How can our open source projects be valued?”

Employees will raise this question because open source is very simple, but it is not easy to attract more people to participate in open source projects after open source.

Open source itself has three purposes. The first is selflessness. For example, Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, firmly believes that the World Wide Web should serve society. If he chose to use the World Wide Web for commercial use, the United States will have one more. A Microsoft-level giant enterprise.

The second purpose is to fake open source. The classic example is Android. Android seems to be open source, but it is actually to obtain a larger market and greater profits through open source, and it also embeds its own products in the so-called open source, so Android is often used Open source spray is a capital demon wearing an open source coat.

The third purpose is to solve the problem. Simply put, I want to make something that I can’t make, so I open sourced the part of the code that I can make, hoping to get help from others to make this thing. . But the question is, why should others help you?

Generally, there are two reasons that attract everyone. One is that the project itself is very attractive, the other is that the initiator of the project is very appealing, and of course there are some other coincidences.

Obviously, Meng Qian’s goal is the third, but under this goal, the two most common situations are that no one takes care of you, or that your open source stuff is good and it is copied directly.

This is like many people think that Android made Google, but in fact it was Google that made Android. If Android was open sourced by a small company, it would be copied by a large company within a few months.

Therefore, the employees’ worries are normal now. Variable technology has started but has not exploded. There are still many people who are curious. It is normal for a bunch of people to plagiarize by open source. As for the projects initiated by themselves, others will ignore them. It is also a normal thing.

Open source sounds great, but in fact it is not that pure.

At this time, Meng Qian showed everyone a website, the Open Source Alliance.

“I know this website.” An employee subconsciously said.

“I know too.” Several people said they knew about this website.

“The founder of this website is very awesome, open source a lot of very valuable things.”

“And it’s very mysterious, I haven’t disclosed my identity until now.”

“I heard that it was a hacker, I heard them talk in the group before.”

“It’s all nonsense by everyone, there is no basis at all, but this person is definitely a godlike existence, either the kind of senior with special experience, or a genius.”

“I think he is a genius and experienced senior.”

“What I am most interested in is that this is a Chinese website. The mysterious person behind it should be Chinese, but this website has attracted a large number of foreigners now.”

“It seems that there are sites in more than 20 countries now? It is developing very fast mainly because the founder’s open source technology is really powerful and very attractive.”

“Does Mr. Meng plan to open source on this website? The atmosphere of this website is really good. I have encountered many problems before and I asked others about it.”

“But now there are more and more open source projects on this website, and it is difficult for people to notice our projects.”

Amidst everyone’s babbling discussion, Meng Qian silently opened a Fengxin account.

The scene was silent for a few seconds, and then someone jumped up, “Fuck! Ancient! You are the ancient!”

“Isn’t it?! Really?! Boss, you are ancient!?”

“Mom, I have seen the antiquity himself!”

“Oh my God, I… I… Fuck!”

People who don’t know the Open Source Alliance look dumbfounded, and those who know the Open Source Alliance are even more dumbfounded.

After nearly a year and a half of development, the Open Source Alliance quickly attracted a group of open source enthusiasts relying on the high quality of its open source content.

The founder of the Open Source Alliance has become a godlike existence in everyone’s mind.

When the employees of Dafeng Science and Technology Innovation Co., Ltd. knew that Meng Qian was the god, their mentality had already exploded. They needed to digest this matter well…

Meng Qian knocked on the blackboard to signal everyone to sit down, “Do you think this appeal is enough?”

Know that the employees of the Open Source Alliance nod their heads like a rattle.

After that, Meng Qian began to write on the blackboard, “In order to further ensure the smooth development of this project, I am going to develop another system. I plan to not trouble my colleagues in other departments for this system, and you will develop it directly. .

The name of this system is called: Distributed Version Control System. ”

is also familiar to future generations of programmers, GIT.