Chapter 781 Who else is there?

Author: Erzi Congzhou

Chapter 781 Who else is there?

Cantonese-style morning tea is particularly suitable for talking about things. Li Leshan asked Zhou Zhi to sit down: "There is no need to be modest about this. Your ideas are quite mature, otherwise it would not be possible to complete the transformation so quickly."

Li Leshan is also very concerned about the domestic information industry and has made huge contributions to the development of the domestic software industry in many aspects.

For example, the famous open source operating system UNIX and its development software C language entered the country under the recommendation of Li Leshan.

The UNIX system has also gone through several iterations, among which the institution that has made the greatest contribution is BSD, which was developed by ATT's Bell Labs and was based on the TCP/IP communication protocol.

Last year, ATT integrated various UNIX versions, including BSD, UNIX V, XENIX, and SUNOS, and finally formed a fairly mature new baseline version-SVR4.

ATT has licensed this version for free to major laboratories and colleges around the world, so this is an excellent open source system.

Li Leshan immediately introduced it to the country.

Through this free open source system, domestic universities and software companies can perfectly avoid the patent trap of software research and development, greatly reduce costs, and promote the development of the domestic software industry.

Of course, this in turn also promoted the development of the UNIX system itself.

A few decades later, this promotion bore fruitful results. Domestic companies used their familiarity with the UNIX system to develop a large number of patented products.

After the Android system developed based on the UNIX system became the mainstream operating system for smartphones, the country successfully achieved overtaking on the basis of this important software for the smartphone industry operating system.

Domestic manufacturers, in turn, have become the group with the largest number of patented technologies for this system in the world. Many mobile communication products, including domestic smartphones, have left other countries with no other way to resist its strong competitiveness except through dirty tricks.

Those who are good at fighting have no great achievements. When future generations are enjoying these dividends, they basically don't know that the founder who first introduced the open source operating system into the country was the one who was feasting on the pineapple buns in front of him.

"Eat some elbows with me. I'm going to have a bite of this over there." Li Leshan Li Leshan tore open a pineapple bun, looked at the flowing egg yolk sand inside with satisfaction and nodded, but misinterpreted his admiring gaze as envy.

He wanted to eat, so he handed him half of the pineapple bun: "There is another key point in your plan, that is, it is quite flexible. It has arranged enough space for future expansion, and also determined the three-level subsets.

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"Who will be the happiest when your plan comes out?"

"Is it...Microsoft?" Zhou Zhi took the pineapple bun and asked tentatively.

"Hahahaha..." Li Leshan laughed: "Clever! Yesterday, after Bill learned about this, he urged me to leave quickly. If you can complete the construction of a large Chinese character library under the framework of the Unicode protocol, it means that the Unicode protocol has actually matured.

Sexual validation!”

"Even the large Chinese character library can be accommodated, and other characters are not a problem."

"And I can tell you responsibly that Lao Bi is definitely not the only one who cares about this matter!"

After saying that, he took a big bite of the pineapple bun in his hand and raised his hand to Uncle Long, meaning it still had the same satisfying taste.

Uncle Long, who was in charge of serving, twitched the corners of his mouth slightly and showed his first smile today.

Zhou Zhi understood Li Leshan's words completely. Most of those who are interested in Unicode are computer manufacturers.

The reason why they are so concerned not only involves some technical issues, but also involves some legal issues.

Or because of the most common technical barrier - patents.

There is no doubt that if Unicode is finally developed perfectly, the first beneficiary will of course be the alliance members.

Even this protocol is likely to become a free protocol like UNIX, which can be used by all software and hardware manufacturers around the world, greatly reducing everyone's costs.

As the country that contributes the most, there is no need to search for patents. After all, the biggest beneficiary of this agreement is China.

Other countries are not very interested in which protocol to use, because there are few characters and any protocol is enough for them.

But for China, which has a large number of characters, it is of great significance to be able to avoid being searched for large amounts of agreement royalties by others.

So the topic quickly turned to technical details, and a good morning tea turned into a "big font design defense meeting" that was increasingly incomprehensible to everyone except Zhou Zhi and Li Leshan.

We can't blame Li Leshan for his eagerness and caring.

First of all, he didn't believe that there was such technical strength in China. You should know that the technical preparation work for this project is still quite complicated, especially for Zhou Zhi to pester Feng Xueshan to complete the preparation work with such "stupid" skills. It is not very reasonable in itself.

Software engineering preparation work is the basis of a huge technical project. Project establishment can only be carried out after rigorous demand demonstration and rigorous technical demonstration, and it is determined to be feasible.

After the project is established, investment in capital, technology, personnel, etc. can begin and preliminary development preparations can be made.

Thoughtful approach, to put it simply, seems like a hot-headed approach, but it can be in line with international agreements, and even does the work in advance, creating a huge amount of lead time, and giving it to all alliance members

A huge surprise.

In any case, this is not something that a recent high school graduate from a developing country with an underdeveloped information technology industry can accomplish.

More like a bizarre fantasy.

Therefore, Li Leshan even lost some regard for politeness. He was eager to know whether the design and development of this large font library was a technological reality that was being realized step by step, or whether it was just the whims of a high school student.

Even though Minister Hu and Director Mai of the Computer Department of Shu University repeatedly emphasized to him that it was true, he still felt like he couldn't believe it.

But now the morning tea is getting more and more comfortable, because as the conversation deepens, Li Leshan has been able to confirm that this matter is already being done, and considerable progress has been made.

It can even be said that China has done almost enough and there is not much left for foreign countries to do.

After several hours of defense, Li Leshan knew that he had found a treasure this time. Basically, there was only one thing left for the alliance - to delineate enough code point intervals for Chinese character encoding.

After that, the font library can be transplanted into the Unicode character set, which will expand the character set to dozens of times. This will be an explosive growth that will shock the industry.

The most important thing is that the humanistic connotation contained in it is enough to silence anyone who dared to raise objections before.

Being able to crush criticism with the big proposition of defending the achievements of human civilization, Li Leshan now dares to stand on the speaker's seat of the alliance meeting and ask: "Who else?"
Chapter completed!