Chapter 946: Double-edged sword

Looking at Tan Zhenhua's slightly puzzled gaze, Scully explained: "Before I came, I had fully discussed the feasibility of joining the "Midoor" alliance with the company's board of directors, and you already know the conclusion."
"Huh?"
"First of all, we, Apple, will only join this alliance to a limited extent. In the next generation of personal computers launched, the hardware structure of the MIPS architecture is adopted-but the "iDoor" system is not included. The board of directors insists that the MacOS system is inseparable from Apple. Part."
"So the operating system compatibility..."
"Our technical team has discussed this issue, and the conclusion is that there is not much trouble in migrating the MacOS system based on the Unix kernel to the MIPS architecture. Of course, the underlying structure will be different from our existing Motorola CPU architecture that uses the CISC architecture. It needs to be revised a lot."
Tan Zhenhua nodded slightly and asked, "So what's next?"
"Secondly, we hope to reach a one-time perpetual license agreement with the "Matrix" laboratory and the "iDoorsoft" company, including all the parts that you have accused us of infringement."
"Mr. Scully, that requires you to pay a sufficient price, and what you just said is obviously not enough to impress me."
"Eric, there are only two of us here, so it's better to let us be more frank-according to my guess, the reason why you filed that lawsuit has a very important purpose is to force me to sit opposite you. In today’s face-to-face negotiation with you-I have to say, you have already succeeded in half."
Tan Zhenhua raised his eyebrows without answering, but Scully continued:
We all know that the graphical operation interface applied to personal computer systems was first developed by Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center. Mr. Dominic Hagen, who is in charge of this project in Palo Alto, is currently working for Apple and as the R&D supervisor of the MacOS system. In fact, Mr. Jobs had negotiated with Palo Alto about licensing and technology for this system. For related matters such as buyouts, Palo Alto rejected the deal on the grounds that they were not a commercial unit but a research unit—well, judging from the current situation, maybe Mr. Jobs’ bid was not enough at the time. Perhaps Palo Alto had not decided to sell this technology at the time."
Tan Zhenhua shrugged his shoulders and said: "Mr. Scully, I know that these are facts you are talking about, but these do not change Palo Alto as the inventor and owner of these technologies, and we have acquired the technologies through transactions. The reality of ownership cannot be changed. In a legal sense, Apple has already caused us tort."
"Eric, of course I know this. I said so much just to illustrate one thing. Apple also has enough evidence to prove that our access to technology is through a Palo Alto Center that is engaged in basic technology research and not" Matrix
laboratory or the
iDoorsoft
company that purchased these technologies for two million US dollars, and we have also invested huge resources in the corresponding expansion research on this basic technology. The current technology has been compared with that of the original technology. There is a big difference when it was invented-even the source code has been completely unrecognizable. Therefore, the so-called "infringement" may not be 100% supported by the court, and in that case, you may not be able to prohibit us from using it. This technology can only receive a small amount of licensing fees, and if that is the case, we at Apple will obviously reconsider our position on the "Midoor" alliance-Eric, instead of that, we should change A more decent way to solve this problem that is acceptable to both parties."
"such as?"
"For example, let Apple participate in MIPS."
This sudden proposal went beyond Tan Zhenhua’s expectation, causing him to fall into a short period of contemplation after being astonished. After Scully made this proposal, he did not continue his sharp rhetorical offensive, but began to savor it. Coffee, the house fell into a temporary silence.
Tan Zhenhua felt that he needed to think through his thoughts.
It has to be said that the new CEO chosen by Apple, the successor of Steve Jobs, and the former chief of the world’s "carbonated sugar water second" still has two brushes. Not only did he guess the "matrix" and sue Apple. The real goal of the company was to immediately formulate corresponding countermeasures and try to maximize its own interests. This is actually because the halo on Steve Jobs is so dazzling that it blinds the eyes of a crowd of onlookers. This John Scully looked bleak.
In fact, John Sculley has led Apple for eight years since 1985. During his tenure, the sales of Apple’s Macintosh personal computers have increased from 800 million US dollars to 8 billion US dollars, a complete turnaround. ten times.
Tan Zhenhua didn't know this, but it didn't affect him to give Mr. Scully a very high evaluation, and very seriously weighed the pros and cons of his proposal.
Obviously, the well-prepared Apple intends to do everything possible to expand its own interests and fight for the right to speak in the "Midoor" alliance. Obviously, they are not reconciled to just becoming a passively accepted party in this alliance. They are acknowledging the "Matrix" experiment. While the Chamber is the de facto core and leader of the alliance, they require the alliance to respect their status and also require the alliance to listen to their opinions carefully.
This is actually an inevitable event.
Tan Zhenhua immediately thought that in addition to Apple, the leading and already-growing U.S. IT giants on the list of HP, Intel, IBM, DEC, etc. he was trying to pull into the alliance might make similar demands and use them to join them. The necessary conditions for this alliance, after all, these are high-tech companies that understand the key role of core technology to their company, and no one wants the lifeline of their company to be in the hands of an unrelated person.
For example, Tan Zhenhua knew that in another time and space, ARM, which mastered the core CPU architecture technology of smartphones, included an important company-Apple on its board of directors. It was precisely because of Apple's support that the ARM architecture became The de facto standard for smartphones.
This is a double-edged sword.
Attracting these giants to join in the form of equity will inevitably get great help in the promotion of the market, and help the "Midoor" alliance to occupy the market as quickly as possible. However, it will inevitably lead to Tan Zhenhua's right to speak in this alliance. reduce.
If you gain something, you must lose something.
If it is purely for profit, then Tan Zhenhua will accept this plan without hesitation, but he established this alliance not just to make money.
For the sole purpose of making money, at this point in time, he might as well go to the market to acquire the circulating stocks of companies that will skyrocket in the future, such as Apple, such as Microsoft, just buy and buy, etc. in the past few years, it will be dozens or hundreds of times. The expected profit, why does he bother so much?
But he also knows that in the fiercely competitive IT market, companies that cannot grow up quickly can only end up with the end of the most powerful concept. For example, the MIPS company in his previous life, such as the once beautiful SUN, at most It can only be regarded as a meteor that once struck the night sky. The speed of its rise and the speed of its death are equally impressive.
The prosperous and the sudden death, the straight teachers sighed.
Dilemma.