America 1982

In the garage, Jason bit a straw and stared at the computer screen. Following Tommy's prompts, Jason took over from Tommy to adjust some software.

Tommy was holding a piece of spaghetti and now he was devouring it in his mouth. While swallowing, he said to Jason vaguely: "Professor Simmons said there is an exam next week. You'd better hurry up, Jason. Let's I still have a lot of homework to review when I get back."

Jason spit out the straw, kept typing on the keyboard, and cursed bitterly: "What a warm reminder from my roommate. This considerate tone almost made me forget who made me become like this, man, In order to help you, I was almost tricked by a fool into making a small movie. You know, it is a one-day movie that is rougher and more vigorous than the small movies on adult pay channels. Even low-level prostitutes will not participate in it. An art job that only drug addicts and stowaways would show up for, yes, an art job.”

One-day movies are a type of adult short movies. The paid short movies played on TV only show the upper body, and the male protagonist is guaranteed to be strong and handsome, the heroine has a graceful figure and a delicate face, and there will be a complete plot and aesthetics framing.

The kind of one-day movie that Mark roped in Jason to shoot is a pure AV product that is released directly to the video tape. Changing the actors does not change the scene, or the scene does not change the actors. In short, many movies can be shot in one day, and the appearance requirements of the actors are also higher than Those TV movies are much lower.

It was for this reason that when Jason White learned that Mark was going to trick him into making this kind of movie, he couldn't help it anymore and punched the other person. He happened to be a cowherd once by chance. Yes, he He took money from that woman, but he didn’t plan to keep doing it. It had already become a joke within the fraternity. Now, it’s good that this bastard named Mark actually disliked him for not being well-known enough and planned to give away his image. Entering thousands of households?

"Look on the bright side, Jason, at least we know that in addition to Cowherd, he now has the potential to become an actor." Tommy said after swallowing the food in his mouth.

At this time, Holly walked in from the outside, dropped her handbag, walked over, picked up the black pepper beef cubes from Tommy's dinner plate with her fingers, and put it into her mouth, and then looked at Tommy:

"Registration is complete, so when will magazine advertisements in "Metropolitan California Edition" and "Children and Parents" be considered for publication? You can't just recruit a large number of cheap prostitutes for training, right? Other unemployed women will not be considered at all."

"Why do you ask this question so suddenly?" Tommy looked at Holly.

Holly poured a glass of water by herself and held it in her hand: "Why? Tommy, you asked me to register a human resources company and prepare to recruit a large number of prostitutes. It's normal for me to have the concerns and questions I have now. I am preparing to join the computer software industry, not to open a cheap brothel in Silicon Valley."

"I told you, don't be impatient, take your time. Why did you choose to advertise in "Happy Finder" magazine first? It's because cheap prostitutes are more tolerant than ordinary housewives, and they have more unbearable properties than ordinary women. With experience, they have dealt with all kinds of men and seen all kinds of harsh environments. Compared with ordinary women, they are more adaptable to new environments." Tommy ate the food in his mouth and looked at Holly:

"If you look at this as a software development process, you will find that cheap prostitutes are actually the first version of our software. Putting them into Silicon Valley is to install the software into the MS-DOS system. Their main purpose The work is to ensure one thing, that is, compatibility. Silicon Valley can be compatible with these cheap prostitutes. This is the most important. After getting the early data, we can then consider other functional issues, that is, adjust and guide other women based on the feedback from the early data. .”

Jason and Holly both stopped and looked at Tommy Hawke.

Tommy saw the expressions of the two of them and asked uncertainly: "What? Your expressions are very strange."

"Stanford Women's Equality is really smart about choosing a partner. They chose someone who epitomizes women as a whole." Jason exhaled. "You really respect those poor women, Tommy."

Tommy said calmly: "I only respect people who deserve respect, such as Mark and Susan, and I respect them very much."

"What do we do next?" Holly asked Tommy.

Tommy put the last bite of food into his mouth: "Continue to polish the software, continue training, and put products into Silicon Valley until Lotus truly realizes our existence."

…

After Jim Manz flipped through several computer professional magazines published this week, he found that the advertising space was still occupied by himself and a few old rivals. There was no new software released, and there were no new faces in the interviews. Then he licked his lips. He asked the secretary working next to him: "Who is our dealer in California?"

"Kinneil chain software monopoly." The secretary thought for a while and replied with a firm tone.

Jim nodded: "Yes, it's Kinnear. I asked you to contact them before and asked them to help find out about a software company called Actor in California. Have they called?"

"They not only called, but even faxed the relevant text they learned." The secretary quickly rummaged through the documents and handed the found information to Jim: "It's just that the information shows that the company is not a threat, so I'm going to I’ll ask you to take a look at it before you get off work, after all, you are busy dealing with the problem with Moses Software.”

The information Kinnear helped find showed that this company called Actor was founded by three Stanford University students who received entrepreneurial funds provided by Stanford University. The company is located in a garage on Liberty Avenue in Stanford and has not been put on sale in the near future. Software arrangement.

The reason why he is so sure is because Kinnear has asked various computer-related magazines and media around Silicon Valley, and Actor does not seem to have contacted any professional media.

According to the normal thinking of a startup software company, if the other party plans to bring the software to the market in the near future, no matter how short of funds, the startup company will find a way to appear in these professional magazines to attract the attention of peers and investors, and at least it will get Use the money to hire reporters from some computer magazines to write a user review or something like that.

In the opinion of the secretary, a small start-up company with no sales plan this quarter is not worth wasting any of Jim's time. After all, Lotus's biggest rival is MicroPort Software. MicroPort recently acquired a small company named Moses. Moses The company previously developed a spreadsheet software called DeskCalc. Because it was compatible with Lotus 1-2-3 files without authorization, it was blocked by Lotus at the legal level as soon as it was launched.

Just when the court was about to declare Moses infringement and hand over the software code and all data, MicroPort acquired Moses at this time and supported Moses' counterclaim against Lotus for monopolizing the computer application programming interface API level in an attempt to build a software ecosystem. Island.

Moses Company originally had no money to litigate, but with MicroPort behind it, its combat effectiveness has soared. MicroPort's legal team has been assembled and is ready to defeat Lotus's legal team on behalf of Moses Company.

"Now that Moses Software has been acquired by MicroPort, this kind of lawsuit that was supposed to win has turned into a time-consuming fight. A clear situation will not emerge for two or three years. In the short term, it is a complete waste of time and no need to pay attention to it, leaving the legal team to Let's study the computer-related legal provisions." Jim held this thin fax paper and said:

"However, this Actor company makes me feel very strange. If they have no plans to announce it this quarter, how did Lotus get this software? I heard from Mitch and the others that this software is already a complete version, a fully developed software , which has no plans to be released in the near future, but it was first obtained by Lotus, which is abnormal. Mickey said before that it was sent by a Lotus user, but now I think it was probably sent by Actor himself."

"Perhaps they received the lawyer's letter we sent and canceled the sales plan?" the secretary reminded cautiously.

Jim Manz stretched out his finger to signal the other party not to interrupt his thoughts. He stood up from his seat, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, and looked out at the scenery outside the window: "What if we think differently? They are not engineers like Mickey. But the businessman, who deliberately leaked it to us before, just wants us to help them with free publicity?"

"But they have no plans to sell it." The secretary said doubtfully.

"That's because Jonathan didn't make the trip after my persuasion. They once spun a net, hoping that Mickey or Jonathan would fall in, and then launch their software, but in the end no one went, and their plan failed." Jim Mann Zi turned his head to look at the secretary, his eyes lit up:

"If my guess is true, it means that the other party is not a nerdy programmer like Mickey and Jonathan. They know how to use methods other than software. Mickey and Jonathan will not do this."

The secretary shook his head in confusion: "But that company has determined that it has no plans to sell products this quarter..."

"Don't keep reminding me of the damn sales plan! Who told you that the only way to sell software is to entrust software dealers to help sell it. If you want to be a call girl, other than advertising in magazines or being affiliated with Apart from an entertainment company, what else can you do?" Jim looked at the secretary and asked, "By the way, when you also receive a letter from a lawyer."

"I don't want to and don't know how to be a call girl, sir." The secretary was surprised at first, and then said nervously.

Jim turned to look out the window and said, "You can also dress yourself up to look pitiful, stand on the street with a lawyer's letter, and trick those stupid men into paying money and lining up to have sex with you in the name of asking for help."

The secretary couldn't stand Jim's vulgar conversation and was about to leave quietly, but Jim said again: "Let's see if there are any recent Silicon Valley exhibitions that I can attend, and then book two tickets in the name of the company. Mitch invited me to come, just to represent him." He solves all possible threats to Lotus, so I have to see with my own eyes that they are not standing on the street soliciting customers before I feel reassured."

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