看微软的十年和开源的十年有感
(2008-10-23 11:07:12)
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网络上总是有文章提出盖茨在1998年发表的有关对中国盗版现象的一段话。
因为我没看到原稿,所以搜索了下。
终于在CNN找到了题为 The Bill & Warren Show 的新闻
而其中有关中国盗版问题的言论如下
What impelled you to make a trip together to China in 1995, and how has that trip affected your global business decisions since?
GATES: We went to China for a lot of reasons. Partly to relax and have fun. We found a few McDonald's there, so we didn't feel too far away from home. It was also exciting to go and see all the changes taking place, to see different parts of the country, and to meet some of the leaders.
China is a market that Microsoft had already been investing in. We've upped that a lot since then. As a percentage of our sales, though, it's tiny--well under 1%--and so even though it will double every year for the next five years, it's really only by taking a ten-year view that we can say it's worth the emphasis we're putting on it.
Although about three million computers get sold
every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday
they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we
want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then
we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next
decade.
原文地址 http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/07/20/245683/index.htm
从商业角度而言盖茨英明之处在于目光长远,他不担心当时的软件在中国被盗版,不担心做不出业绩。他深深的懂得一旦把中国的人习惯培养好了,那收钱是水到渠成的事情。我佩服他的远见。
开源十年:堪比中国足球的十年
我不是球迷,但我多少能感受到中国足球的发展变化。
1998年,我在读高一,和大多数人一样,接触的是windows95或者windows98。而linux等开源软件还只是在宫敏博士从芬兰带回来的一些很好玩很新奇的东西,虽说服务器领域有linux的兄弟(UNIX),但是个人用户是根本不知道linux的。
到了2001年左右,国内的做linux汉化的几个公司发展迅猛,开源软件掀起了一股热潮。而后在“免费软件”的宣传口号下,又销声匿迹。整个开源软件的产业链无法形成。
到了2004年左右,linux在浙江省又开始起步,中国科华集团的老板发起成立浙江省linux专业委员会,继而联合高校成立 LUPA(开源软件推进联盟),而ZF方面,成立linux软件开发企业,为ZF采购提供便利。而后广东、上海、江苏相继出现linux支持机构。
到如今,linux在中国的已经。。。算了,我不知道如何评价才是。以前的零散的文章多少可以表明我的一些立场。
今后的十年:
微软已经看到开源的优势,从漠视开源到嘲笑开源到反对开源到支持开源。。。。如果开源在今后的十年未有长足的进步,开源将被微软控制。最终被微软吞没。。。届时,软件行业将会是怎样一个凄惨的场面。
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