Rewrite the Technological Landscape

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

The communication development department has already known its own work and started to get busy. Next is the work arrangement of the industrial software development department, the system development department and the 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, there are many old faces because many people were transferred from the previous Commercial Software Development Department. .

The last CAD software development was a training session for them by Meng Qian, and some good people were selected from them. This time, the industrial software development department not only has programmers, but also introduces talents from the industrial field. Industrial software must understand industry, and one point should be able to explain roughly.

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

The purpose of the company's establishment of the Industrial Software Department seems to everyone to be very clear, which is to challenge EDA software, but Meng Qian did not follow everyone's guess, "The next thing the Industrial Software Development Department will do Based on variable technology as the core, research a general-purpose EDA software architecture with comprehensive functions, and then open source."

"Open source?" The people in the industrial software development department were all confused, "Why?"

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

The few people who had participated in the development before looked at each other, and one of them said unwillingly, "There is nothing you can do."

Others echoed the statement with silence.

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

Industrial software open source upsurge. "

There is one thing that Meng Qian can't tell everyone, that is, this opportunity only lasted for four short years. Historically, the open source boom of industrial software lasted from 2000 to 2004, and then it was suppressed by several industrial software giants. He never looked up again.

"You don't have to feel wronged." Noticing everyone's expressions, Meng Qian comforted, "What we are after is the result, and in order to achieve the result we want, it is normal to use appropriate strategies.

The purpose of open source is very simple. When we, and even China, lack the ability to strengthen international giants, we 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 deficiencies, we have to spend our time studying these deficiencies. We have to stand on the basis of open source power and carry out secondary development. In the end, we need to come up with our own EDA software. Build a comprehensive EDA software set, I say this, do you understand? "

Although Meng Qian also wants to lead his employees to fight hard against EDA software giants, this field cannot be solved by relying on the advantages of rebirth. Variable technology is the fourth revolution of industrial software. After this revolution, Huaxia has been defeated all the way You can't even see it in the taillights.

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

In 2001, the variable technology has begun to develop again. Meng Qian can pretend to be aggressive in China only by relying on this technology. The situation has changed.

Moreover, this field is not like the lithography machine and mobile communication field. At present, there are really no resources that can be integrated in China, and Meng Qian is also very helpless.

As for Meng Qian himself, the premise of doing smart industry back then was to have a mature team. Now it’s okay to lead everyone to make simple EDA software. I kind of look down on this field that can make Huaxia lag behind and be beaten by others.

Fortunately, Meng Qian's explanation changed the mood of the employees. After realizing that open source is only the first step, and the follow-up secondary development is the focus of everyone, many people's excitement returned, but some people immediately Raised a very real question, "Where do we open source? How can our open source projects be valued?"

Employees will ask 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 believed that the World Wide Web should serve the society. If he chose to commercialize the World Wide Web, the United States would have one more A giant company at the Microsoft level.

The second purpose is to fake open source. The classic example is Android. Android seems to be open source, but in fact it is 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 called Open source sprayers are capital demons wearing open source coats.

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

Generally, there are two reasons that can attract everyone. One is that the project itself is very attractive, and the other is that the project initiator is very charismatic. Of course, there are other coincidences.

Obviously, Meng Qian's goal is the third one, but under this goal, the two most common situations are that no one pays attention to you, or you open source something good, but it is copied directly.

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

Therefore, it is normal for employees to worry now. Variable technology has started but has not exploded. There are still many people who are curious. Once you open source, it is normal for a bunch of people to copy it. As for the projects initiated by yourself, others ignore them. It is also a very normal thing.

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

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

"I know this website." Some employees subconsciously said.

"I know too." Several people said they knew about this website one after another.

"The founder of this website is awesome and has open sourced a lot of very valuable things."

"And it's also very mysterious. I haven't disclosed my identity until now."

"I heard it was a hacker. I heard them chatting in the group before."

"It's all people's nonsense, there is no basis for the statement, but this person is definitely a god-like existence, either a senior with a lot of experience, or a genius."

"I think he is a talented and experienced senior."

"What interests me most is that this is a Chinese-language website. The mysterious people behind it should be Chinese, but this website has now attracted a large number of foreigners."

"It seems that there are sites in more than 20 countries now? The development is really fast, mainly because the founder's open source technology is really powerful and attractive."

"Is Mr. Meng going to open source this website? The atmosphere of this website is really good. I encountered many problems before and asked others there."

"But now there are more and more open source projects on this website, and it is difficult for our projects to be noticed."

Amid all the discussions, Meng Qian silently opened a Fengxin account.

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

"Isn't it?! Really?! Boss, you are ancient!?"

"Mom, I saw the ancient himself!"

"Oh my god, me. Damn it!"

People who don't know the Open Source Alliance are confused, and those who know the Open Source Alliance are even more confused.

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

Shang Gu, the founder of the Open Source Alliance, has become a god-like existence in everyone's mind.

When the employees of Dafeng Techchuang knew that Meng Qian was the god, their mentality was blown, and they needed to digest this matter well.

Meng Qian tapped on the blackboard to signal everyone to sit down, "Do you think this appeal is enough?"

Knowing that the employees of the Open Source Alliance nodded like chickens pecking at rice.

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 bother my colleagues in other departments, and let you develop it directly. .

The name of this system is: distributed version control system. "

That is, GIT, which is familiar to future generations of programmers.

Thanks to the lame trapeze for the reward! Thanks to the wandering tiger brother for the reward!