Chatting about "piracy"

My computer has not reinstalled the system for about two years, And I seldom patronize the pirated discs. I am not very familiar with "tomato garden" and have never installed my computer, I installed it at the company about a year ago, but some people may want to laugh at it: "It turns out your company is also using piracy." In fact, no, the company's computers are all brand-name machines, and there will be genuine OS when it comes back. We used to buy Dell, and later changed to Lenovo. By the way, we mention the quality of Lenovo, which is really crazy, in less than a year, we purchased three new Lenovo Think centers in our small software department. One monitor and two mouse computers were decommissioned, and our monitor was our manager, the two mice were owned by me and the other assistant engineer respectively. what's even more embarrassing is that my display was not scrapped, but there was an extra line on the top of the screen, which was very dazzling, I really want to let it break down so that I can change to a new one. Well, just let it go. Although the company's computers are pre-installed with normal Windows, you can look at this quality of computer, it is not normal to reinstall it. It is usually necessary to find it, but the company is relatively large, it is difficult to find it. In addition, we are also doing software, and we are familiar with it, and we will take a shortcut, find a pirated disc to install it. If Microsoft finds out that we are pirated, you can also point to the pattern laser trademark on the chassis and say, "Look, licence."

The reason for writing this article is that I have read a post from Tianya just now. The landlord condemned Hong Lei's behavior and supported Microsoft's opposition to piracy. The title is "cheers for the death of the tomato garden ", when I read the title, I thought it was a potential post that caused heated debate. So I opened it and looked at it. I found that 90% of Internet users are posting bricks to the landlord, A lot of words are still very bad, and there are indeed some discrepancies with the "heated debate" that I expect, which almost turns into a mouth sticker for abuse and venting. This is not a habit for friends who have stayed in csdn.net for a long time, however, I often find it strange in other forums, but I didn't expect so many people to support piracy and hate the monopoly of Microsoft. I can tell from the abuse of the landlord in the whole article, piracy is so normal. It is so natural to use piracy. Some people even leave a message saying, "All cracking and sharing are supported ". Then I read some related posts. It is obvious that people who support piracy won the championship with an absolute advantage. For such posts, I will certainly not follow them, just as I never participate in a single election that may win more than 90% votes in my life-it's really boring. I will summarize the comments made by netizens:

1. If the price is too high, I refuse to use the Microsoft official version. I will consider it if it is 10 yuan.
2. People who use pirated content have no right to condemn pirated content. I don't believe you use genuine content?
3. We will steal the monopoly of Microsoft hegemony.
4. I just use piracy. How are you doing?
5. All supported Microsoft are traitors.
6. I am using Linux. (A few friends who do not use piracy do so)
7. None of the Four Great Inventions paid us the copyright fee. Why should we pay them the copyright fee?
8. Defeat Microsoft.
9. (a large number of unsightly sentences ......)

Now, we all know our situation. Now, let me ask you, what kind of decent general-purpose software products are there in China? What is a common software product? Products like Windows, office, Photoshop, Kingsoft, right, are there any products that can be sold on shelves? Yes, yes, but few. Why? Because I cannot make any money, what software can make money now? Whether it is easy or difficult to earn more or less, I can tell you:

1. Large specialized project software, such as some ERP and some B2B websites.
2. anti-virus software. This is the software that users are most willing to pay.
3. online games, right, are online games and stand-alone games? Don't talk about it.
4. software bundled with hardware is part of the product by virtue of hardware.
5. network applications rely on advertisements and so-called "value-added services" to make money, such as PPS and QQ.

Is there anything else? I can't think of it. In general, they tend to be dedicated and networked. They share a common feature: Hard piracy or piracy has no value at all. If not, simply survival becomes a problem. Therefore, many shared software do not dare to accept the registration fee, because no one is willing to pay, in an attempt to charge the registration fee for Software encryption, it can only lead to more thorough cracking, so later, I simply bundled some advertisement plug-ins to make some money. Is this the "network" I mentioned earlier? The advertisement plug-ins take effect through the network, and such software becomes the 5th types mentioned above. There are too few software that is profitable through retail ...... I don't know if Kingsoft will continue to release the retail version. I miss the pure commercial software I bought before and don't have any advertisement bundle. I will use it if I get it back and install it for dozens of dollars, FREE upgrades are also provided.

In fact, I have bought a lot of genuine software, and I have never thought that the software should be available at no cost. I have bought Kingsoft, WPS, a long time ago. I have provided some support for Kingsoft. I remember that I also presented a trial version of jianxia. I even paid for an input method. Some people may still know that it is the smart competition of the Chinese star. I bought both I and II. It is not very expensive. I remember it was 35 yuan, however, for an input method, the capacity of hundreds of MB is exaggerated. I like games very much. I have bought a lot of genuine game software, such as Starcraft and Diablo. Many people do not know that Starcraft has great animations and background music, but I know, there is no need to worry about the integrity of genuine software. Diablo is a genuine edition that I was shocked to purchase after playing the demo version. Of course, there is also a game modification tool, the famous fpe2000, I don't know much about it now. In the past, there was also a very famous computer learning software called kaitianshidi. Well, I bought a genuine computer, which was produced by Jin hongen, I bought this and sent the first 3D instant strategy game "freedom and glory" in China, which was claimed to have been called at the time. Why didn't I hear from this company? I want to say how good I can continue with freedom and glory. To be honest, I still have a high expectation for it. Anti-virus software I purchased is Symantec AntiVirus, a veteran. Although expensive, I think it is of high quality. The games and software mentioned above are old. I have bought fewer games over the past few years. I remember that I have bought several games of soft stars, that is, the "Legend of the legend of the fairy sword 3" and "xuanyuan sword 4" that everyone is familiar with, and their external biography, maybe many people think that the soft Star games can sell some money because they use very strict encryption: starforce, which forces players to buy. This is a very abnormal encryption method, we can detect the genuine version by making bad tracks on the CD and abusing the optical drive ...... I dare not compliment me. what's even more frightening is that even if it is genuine, I often scrape the disk for half a day. Then I make a mistake and say that I can't break my heart. In fact, I bought it, it is an affirmation of its previous glory. Unfortunately, when I was playing "xuanyuan sword 5", I vowed not to play their games any more. This is a comparison with those games outside China, that is, the gap between primary school students' compositions and doctoral thesis.

I 've talked so much in the previous section. Maybe you want to talk about it. Are you using a genuine windows? Haha, this reminds me of something. I went out to dinner with a few colleagues last weekend and mentioned that I wanted to buy a genuine Windows Vista Home Edition, which was only 600 yuan and I could afford it, one of my colleagues immediately asked me, "Why did you buy it? Give a reason first ." I said, "Bill Gates said I used his piracy ." Everyone laughed ...... Actually, as a software engineer, I have never installed genuine Windows on my computer. This seems a little weird ", others may think that the cost of software is a CD, but I should not think so as a developer. I know how complicated windows is, we also know how much manpower and material resources Microsoft has invested in developing windows. Speaking of anti-piracy, some people on the Internet are clamoring: "the Chinese Olympic Games have been launched, but Windows cannot be created yet ?" I can't blame him either, because he doesn't know windows or Microsoft, and China can start another 10 Olympic Games, but cannot develop a windows. Microsoft has the growth soil of Microsoft, this kind of "Refresh record" Yellow land is not like this. Some people say that replacing Windows with Linux is even more unknown. Due to the inability of users to use software, I have only transplanted the programs on the Linux platform to the Windows platform, the opposite has never been done. As long as Microsoft does not solve the problem, no company can replace it. The reality is so cruel. We are all used to the software windows and Microsoft, office, MSN, Outlook Express, ie ...... So are our users. It is not easy for us to abandon windows to use Linux. What about our users? What about a large number of windows-related software? What makes you think Linux is more efficient and stable than windows? I still want to buy this set of genuine Windows, although Microsoft rarely gives us a break, even when we are not familiar with Vista, it started its "Vienna", but I think it is appropriate to pay for it. The Olympics taught Chinese people "Sports Without Borders". I think we should also learn "labor without borders ", the work of foreign software engineers is also worthy of our respect! I'm going to put this windows color box on my shelf to make it look like a book. I'm not doing this because I have seen it very special. On the contrary, I just want to tell myself: like other products, software should be paid for it-my books are not pirated.

I know that you can find countless reasons to refute me or even attack me, but I don't care much about it. I use this "chat" method, I spoke to a software engineer and hoped that China's software industry would be able to guard against arrogance and rashness and develop healthily.