As a software engineer, I am embarrassed to face the tomato incident.

After being engaged in soft development for N years, the tomato incident taught me to review the past events on this road. Where should I vote? It's embarrassing to remember.

On the one hand, I think the cost of learning software is very low. At that time, the school was pirated dos, pirated WPS, pirated basic, pirated Turbo C, pirated ..... If there is no piracy, I don't have an interest group of 100 yuan for one school year. In contrast to the outdated rural areas at that time, if the full genuine version is only available to the nobles, software can be learned.

On the other hand, I have now become a "martial arts master" (not to mention whether it is true or not, whether it is irrelevant to the viewpoint). I also thought that if everyone uses genuine products, I can buy a villa (current situation: worried about the house ).

So, in the past, without piracy, I would not be a "master". Now, I will become a rich man without piracy. If there was no piracy at the time, the graphic interface of UCDOS could be developed into a competing product for Windows, because the income of WPS is sufficient to support its R & D. Think about it, he has thoroughly studied dos 80% system interruption services, just one step away from the operating system.

So I used to support piracy. Now I support genuine copies. What about the future? I think it is impossible for the Chinese nation to be pirated in 100! At least I do not agree. Versioning is only a matter of time.

Conclusion: The time cost cannot be estimated, and the history cannot be assumed.

The stance is embarrassing, but the choice is clear: I will leave the current position of the historical choice, and support genuine (in fact, the bottom of my heart is to support others genuine, yourself, if others are genuine, I will also be genuine.) -- I want to have a house.

 

I believe that readers share the same feelings, especially those who are working hard to learn and improve themselves. I am afraid there are more contradictions than I do: learning advanced technologies requires resources and tools, if these resources and tools are genuine, what is the cost? In terms of work, if the customer uses genuine products, why can't the company earn money and have a low salary?

To be honest, many public portals of the tomato incident were investigated, but no professional portal was found. Professional portals are all "Incisive", with a heated discussion, that is, they do not investigate and collect the overall views of software practitioners. Why? Isn't it just an embarrassing stance?