Value of software

Today, I chatted with a Chinese author of open-source software. He complained: "In China, programmers all want to use free software. Even if you are free of charge, you are not a big factory and are afraid to use it, so he wants you to open the source code. With the source code, he hasn't studied it yet. He wants to expand the function as well as the original author. Therefore, programmers are doomed to be very bitter and poor ".

This reminds me of the value of software.

One hundred years ago, Marx said that commodities are the fruits of human wisdom and physical labor for exchange. We also discussed the relationship between prices and values of commodities. The value is relatively stable, and the price fluctuates around the value. However, in the long run, the price reflects the value. However, due to Marx's current technological level, I have never considered the issue of computer software products.

First of all, computer software is a commodity. It is the result of the labor that the author has racked his brains to sell money. It is only the result of human wisdom, but it does not have much physical strength. This labor result is used for exchange, and in a mature market economy, it can sell the price of the application. However, software products have three major features compared with traditional products: 1. Low-cost large-scale replication, 2. It is not an entity. 3. Software consumes less natural resources, and most of it is only a labor cost. It is just a kind of information. This can easily lead to piracy and lack of awareness of the value of software.

The evil of piracy is hard to crack. It seriously damages the market economy system and wastes a large amount of social resources. Piracy has supported a few people in difficulty and has made a few richest people, but has wasted hundreds of millions of yuan of investment, how unfair is the result of thousands of Senior Human Resources hard-working people's unrespected and very wasteful use.

Piracy can be divided into personal piracy and commercial piracy. The reason for personal piracy may be that there is no money to sell genuine goods, or you just want to study it for the time being and do not use it to make money. This is for some reason, after all, piracy does not respect software authors and should be reduced. Commercial piracy uses piracy to make money. If the plot is bad and the motive is not good, It should be severely cracked. At present, I guess there are more than 90% of the domestic piracy rate. According to China's national conditions, the personal piracy rate should be controlled below 60%. The lower the commercial piracy rate, the better.

In the past, I saw an advertisement for encrypted discs: "There is no savior in the world, and Software Encryption depends on myself." In fact, I have always believed that there is only one savior for dealing with piracy, that is, achin, it is a pity that Achin's poor rectification of piracy has made me very disappointed. Recently, China has been launching a-day campaign to combat piracy. However, a few days ago, when we passed the Pearl River Road, we still found many people selling pirated discs on the side of the road. I have never been confused about the benefits of piracy in improving GDP. Why is it difficult for the Government to manage piracy?

A few days ago, China asked the European Union to acknowledge that China is a complete market economy and the European Union did not agree. You may have no confidence in this. For the software market, as long as there is serious piracy, the complete and mature software market system cannot be achieved. Although the country is now more supportive of the software industry, and there is continuous blood transfusion, the blood transfusion and piracy are there, which reminds me of a mathematical question in elementary school, a pool, water injection, and water injection, how long is it filled? This ridiculous phenomenon is interpreted in multiple places on the land of China. When will this day be the first.

Some people do not have enough knowledge about the value of software due to long-term severe piracy. They think that all software, regardless of its size, should be money for a pirated CD. Currently, it is four yuan, there are many pirated and cracked software sites, and the software Price is also very low. In the long run, the software is really weak and small.

In fact, every software has a lot of wisdom, and many software can help users easily deal with complicated problems and bring little value to customers. Today, software allows humans to process massive amounts of information at a fairy speed, just as airplanes allow humans to travel at a fairy speed, they all bring great value to customers, however, what makes the plane expensive and the software cheap.

In fact, the experience of software represents the experience of intellectual property rights. Intellectual property works are different from other products. They are invisible and invisible, therefore, those who do not understand it do not understand its value. People generally think that things they don't know have no value. With the improvement of people's knowledge level, people are increasingly familiar with Intellectual Property Rights, so that people are more likely to understand the value of intellectual property rights, and more likely to recognize the value of intellectual property rights.

At present, the main leaders and masters of this society are our parents, who were born in the 60 or 70 s, this generation of people share a common characteristic that they experienced the Cultural Revolution when they were young. They should have studied every day well, but history has given them a meaningless revolution, as a result, they did not pass the proper education and the knowledge level was not high. Therefore, they did not have enough knowledge about intellectual property rights, so they could not recognize the value of software. This generation of people's ideological level has been finalized and cannot be changed on a large scale.

Our current generation has received much better education than the previous generation, with a relatively high level of knowledge and an understanding of intellectual property rights. Therefore, we have the foundation and ability to recognize the value of software. I believe that ten or two years later, after becoming the master of society, it is very likely that we will be able to establish a reasonable software value so that we can establish a complete and mature market economy system.

But we don't have to wait for ten or two years. Now we can work for it.

First of all, our computer software developers develop their own software, have a relatively prominent level of knowledge, and have a better understanding of intellectual property rights. Therefore, they first recognize the value of software, the software can no longer be considered to be worth four yuan. You respect others' software, and others respect their own software. Everyone respects each other and maintains the value of the software together. Everyone is programming and knows a line of code, each document is a collection of human wisdom and creativity, and is a result of hard work. Should be respected. China's software industry is not small, and there are also a lot of developers. They are all quality young people, and they are very powerful to unite. Everyone remembers that respecting others means respecting themselves.

The vast number of software crackers are here to show their mercy. You have cracked the spof of others, so that others have no benefit. You have earned 1 RMB, however, it wastes hundreds of thousands of yuan in investment in this industry, which severely strikes the process of building an innovative society. Everyone is in the software industry. You need water in the bottom of the ship. When the ship goes down, everyone will be finished.

Everyone should respect and recognize the value of software and sell the value of software to people around them. This not only sets up a master image for outsiders, but also increases the overall profitability of the software industry, and ultimately benefits everyone.

At last, the younger brother took the lead in naked and ice-and-snow Mount Everest. He begged the government to vigorously protect intellectual property rights, protect innovation, and establish a truly comprehensive market economy system and an innovative society.

(ZF)

XDesigner software Studio (http://www.xdesigner.cn) 2006-9-14