Chapter 945: Conditionally agree

"Yes, I discussed a way with Bolton, but this way is a bit radical, so you need to seek your opinion." Jessica said.
"Emmmm, it's a bit radical, so let me take a guess first-Jessica, don't you want to suggest that we file a counterclaim against Microsoft?"
A flash of surprise flashed across Jessica's face, and Yu Pengxia said to her with a natural tone: "Well, Jessica, I said Eric must have planned it long ago."
Only McGregor did not react for a while, and asked wonderingly: "Countersuit? What countersuit?"
"Of course it is suing Microsoft for illegal plagiarism and misappropriation of the technological achievements of our "Matrix" laboratory." Jessica explained: "I have just said that, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center has signed a technology transfer with us. According to the contract, we bought out the key technologies and source codes in the graphical user interface, so there is no legal barrier to using these technologies in our "iDoor" system-but why does Microsoft's "Windows" system use similar What about the technology? Besides their infringement and plagiarism, can there be other explanations?"
"That's the source code I wrote when I was at Microsoft." McGregor said depressedly.
"We all know." Tan Zhenhua said with a smile, "But your former boss, Mr. Gates, did not purchase the corresponding copyright and source code from Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. Maybe he wanted to save some money, maybe He forgot, um, of course I believe he should have remembered it now. There will always be people reminding him that he needs to take some remedial measures. Unfortunately, the ownership of these things no longer belongs to Palo Alto. If he wants to buy it, he has to Find us."
"This is interesting." Yu Pengxia smiled: "Microsoft needs to find our "Matrix" laboratory to purchase the corresponding software source code copyright to prove that he has legal rights to it and use this as evidence to sue the "Matrix" experiment. Room infringement-to be honest, I have been a lawyer for so many years and I have never encountered a more comical case than this."
Everyone was amused and laughed, and with this laughter, the haze on both Yu Youcheng and McGregor's face was swept away-with such a predictable boss, there is such a With a strong team of lawyers, they feel that they don't have to worry about anything at all.
After everyone laughed, Tan Zhenhua said to his team of lawyers: "Jessica, Peng Xia, I'm afraid I need you to sue one more company."
"Who?"
Tan Zhenhua smiled and said, "Of course it is Mr. Jobs's "Apple"."
As soon as this statement came out, everyone in the house fell into a brief state of bewilderment.
After a while, Yu Pengxia tentatively asked: "Zhenhua, do you want to sue Apple for the same reason?"
"Yeah, why not?" Tan Zhenhua answered naturally, turning to McGregor at the same time: "Mike, Mr. Jobs doesn't seem to have paid Palo Alto this part of the royalties?"
McGregor shook his head and said, "At least there won't be until I leave, otherwise I will know."
"They definitely didn't." Jessica also recovered at this moment, saying in a very positive tone: "Because when we purchased these technologies and products from Palo Alto, none of the previous authorization records appeared. The name of Apple, because we are a buyout, so these authorization records are part of our purchase rights."
"But Eric, we now have several clear business competitors. It is not appropriate to establish an enemy like Apple at this time?" Yu Youcheng asked in a suspicious tone. .
"Who said I would treat Mr. Jobs as an enemy?" Tan Zhenhua said with a smile: "Actually, I want to be friends with him, um, a good friend and a close partner."
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I have to say that Young Master Tan Er obviously has not read "The Biography of Steve Jobs".
Therefore, the "Matrix" laboratory formally filed a counterclaim against Microsoft, and at the same time initiated a software infringement lawsuit against Apple, which was dragged into the war, only to discover that at this time, Apple was no longer at the helm of Mr. Jobs.
It wasn't until this time that Tan Zhenhua remembered to investigate Apple's recent personnel changes, and was surprised to find that the idol that countless people admired had built a Fortune 500 company from scratch in just 5 years. Mr. Jobs, get out of class is over.
get out of class has ended……
1985 was a year of great changes for Apple. Because IT giant IBM spared no effort to join the battle of personal computers, due to the emergence of a large number of cheap IBM-compatible personal computers on the market, due to the failure of the previous generation of Apple computers "AppleLisa" , Because Mr. Jobs insisted on the "soft and hardware bundled sales" business philosophy and the board of directors had a huge conflict...
In short, the success of the new Macintosh computer failed to save Mr. Jobs, who has a unique personality, from declining evaluation and status in the eyes of the board of directors. In April 1985, Apple's board of directors passed a resolution to revoke Jobs' power of management and replace him. It was John Sculley, the former CEO of Pepsi-Cola who was invited to work at Apple with the famous sentence "Do you want to sell sugar water for a lifetime?"
And now, this Mr. Scully is sitting opposite Tan Zhenhua.
Mr. Sculley, who has sold sugar water for half his life and two years of computers, is 46 years old this year. He has a unique temperament brought about by being in a high position all the time. From the sharp eyes shot from time to time from his deep eye sockets, Tan Zhenhua came to a conclusion-this People are an activist who doesn't like talking nonsense.
Sure enough, Scully, who had just taken his seat, said straightforwardly: "Mr. Eric, on behalf of Apple, I propose to you a reconciliation wish. Let me talk about your terms. I don’t believe you will do this for claiming a little authorization fee. Fight hard."
"That's 100 million U.S. dollars." Tan Zhenhua shrugged and said, "It's not a little licensing fee."
"We all know that the amount is impossible, Mr. Eric, before I came, someone had told me about your assets-well, put these aside, we all know that in the United States, most of these Such cases all ended in settlement. We also know that Apple will never give up the graphical interface operating system running on the Macintosh. We also know that the "Matrix" laboratory is working hard to promote a "Midoor" alliance, so if you The purpose is to let us Apple join this alliance, please tell me directly."
"Mr. Sculley, your negotiating style is really unique-well, on behalf of the "Matrix" laboratory, I have formally extended an invitation to Apple, and I hope you can join our "Midoor" alliance."
"Then I also formally reply to the "Matrix" laboratory on behalf of Apple, and we conditionally agree."