Chapter 144 Ordinary people like confrontational stories
Benjamin Rosen looked at Tommy who appeared in front of him again: "It seems that you have seen that kind of business?"
"Long story short, Mr. Benjamin, I don't have time to talk to you about my disgusting experience in Quincy. I need ten million now. Lotus has replaced their vice president of daily operations. I haven't figured it out, and now is the best time to pick up the bat and hit him **** the head a few times." Tommy said straight to the point without exchanging greetings with the other party.
Benjamin looked at Tommy, who moved faster than before: "But I just made an appointment with Mr. Cohen, who is in charge of IBM's personal computer business, to talk in two days. According to your statement..."
"IBM will agree." Tommy took a deep breath and gave Benjamin an affirmative answer.
Benjamin nodded with a smile: "Okay, Tommy, I'll let the secretary arrange it. Do you want me to buy your 15% shares in the name of Compaq, or do you just want it to be an investment?"
"I hope it is a donation, and I hope our transaction is a gift." Tommy leaned forward slightly in Benjamin's direction, emphasizing: "A gift of kindness."
Benjamin sighed: "But I don't want to give a gift."
"I previously registered and established a non-profit computer industry advocacy organization called the Electronic Future Foundation. I hope you donate 10 million to it. As a thank you for your support, I will transfer 15% of Actor's shares to you for free , and you will be personally invited to serve as the first executive director of this organization." Tommy glanced at the butler in the distance, lowered his voice slightly, and said to Benjamin.
Benjamin narrowed his pupils slightly, and after a few seconds of silence, he stared at Tommy's eyes and slowly said, "I guess you don't just want to avoid taxes."
"I, Jason White, Susan Curtis quietly initiated the establishment not long ago, and Ms. Delia Keith served as the legal director of this organization, aiming to promote the prosperity and healthy development of the computer industry." Tommy said earnestly Said.
Hearing his words, Benjamin laughed: "You are the initiator, and I am the donor, but what our two companies have done is absolutely not conscience for the computer industry. You copied Lotus, and I copied IBM."
"The Electronic Future Foundation, referred to as EFF, was established to help small and medium-sized companies in the computer industry, such as providing financial support during research and development, providing relevant support to member companies that encounter court defense problems, representing their cases, or acting as a court Friends, protect computer industry developers and technology from various legal threats, resist patent abuse in the computer industry, etc., avoid those poor small studios in the industry, small companies encounter patent extortion like Actor, and maximize protection Freedom of creation for practitioners." Tommy ignored Benjamin's ridicule and self-mockery, and still spoke seriously about the original intention of establishing this organization. After speaking, he asked Benjamin Rosen, whose smile gradually disappeared:
"After listening, do you feel my conscience? Mr. Rosen?"
"Does it have members?" Benjamin and Tommy looked at each other for a moment and asked.
Tommy answered his question very quickly, almost without thinking: "At present, there are twenty-seven individual members, most of whom are founders of small companies who were sued by Lotus to close their doors. There are also several corporate members. It’s a small start-up company started by a Stanford student in a garage.”
"It sounds a bit like the Computer and Communications Industry Association, but the difference is that one sets a high threshold to select members, while yours is prepared to be absorbed first and then slowly selected." Benjamin gave an example and gave an example after listening. own opinion afterwards.
The Computer and Communication Industry Association is an organization initiated by several computer and communication industry giants. Its members are only seven or eight large companies in the industry, such as Microsoft, IBM, AT&T, Motorola, and Intel. Other companies are not eligible to be invited to join. Although they compete with each other, there are also many cooperations completed by this organization. For example, although IBM was backstabbed by Microsoft, when IBM encountered an antitrust lawsuit, Microsoft and other companies donated to this organization and hired lobbying companies in the name of the association to help IBM, and several major companies all support IBM as a friend of the court and so on.
"No, it's more like the back garden of those big companies, using slogans dedicated to patent reform to attract those small companies to join, and by the way, Actor will shape the public image of Lotus into a patent troll, and then help big companies in the computer industry to provide valuable The list of small companies invested in, EFF is a peripheral auxiliary organization of the Computer and Communications Industry Association, and it does not conflict with EFF, and its existence can also allow the association to announce to the outside world that they do not control the industry." Tommy said to Benjamin.
Benjamin nodded and said slowly: "Everyone has misunderstood you, including me. Everyone thinks you are greedy, but in fact you are doing a good deed. For those small companies, although they need to donate EFF members There are hidden conditions such as priority investment rights, but at least you are willing to help newcomers in this industry, and those big companies are also very happy to join. After EFF provides this priority investment right, you can choose packages worth investing in according to your company's future plans Companies, in short, small companies think that they are in a fair and open industry environment, while large companies successfully use EFF to select support objects. The two parties complete patent sharing and the construction of industry ecology within this organization. Instead, those who do not join will end up being rejected. For any other computer practitioner to create it, it may make those young people and the outside world suspicious, but you are the most suitable one, because your encounter with Actor makes people believe that you have experienced pain before doing this, But now I know that you chose the poor Lotus company because you were preparing to set up this organization first."
"For compliments, you can tell me slowly in your free time later, sir." Tommy said, looking directly into Benjamin's eyes.
Benjamin said to Tommy: "You can go, the money will catch up with you, you are right, IBM will agree to cooperate, how can a large company refuse to feed the entire industry, and there is no reason to deceive the government?" monopoly, the temptation to keep it fair and open."
"Goodbye, by the way, let me borrow the phone." Tommy got up quickly after receiving the reply from the conversation.
He dialed the phone: "Delia, keep an eye on the bank account, and start working in the name of EFF as soon as the funds appear, and prepare to get 176 lawyers in place. I want to make newspapers and TV stations in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston News about this case pops up on the Internet, I want interviews, I want newspaper pages, Tommy Hawk, the founder of Actor, needs to start listening to his mother and do the right thing."
"The first thing I want to tell those ordinary people is that in order to let the low-educated people learn computers to increase their income, Actor has encountered terrible resistance. They actually deliberately replaced the incompetent vice president and hired the powerful and powerful Kennedy family members. Come stop me, normal people love confrontation stories."
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When there are no guests, the photographer Mr. Pete O'Brien spends most of his time sitting in his small photo studio in Boston's South End watching TV to pass the time.
"Mr. O'Brien, nice to meet you." Wearing an Armani suit and combing oiled hair, the other party shook hands with the bewildered Pete with a smile on his face: "I am Eugene Brown from the Creative Photography Center in New York."
Pete was stunned for a moment: "Sir, where do you say you are from?"
"New York Center for Creative Photography, NCCP." The other party repeated.
Pete blurted out in surprise: "Wow, that's the Holy Land for American photographers."
"That's right, all photographers want their work to be collected by NCCP, which is why I am here. Congratulations, Mr. Pete O'Brien." The other party looked at the environment of the photo studio and said in his mouth.
Pete seemed to be struck by lightning, and he was stunned for a long time before recovering from the news: "But I'm just an ordinary photographer, I mean, I never sent it to you..."
"One of your female portraits was found by the well-known photographer Rosalind Solomon of our center by chance, and she received her praise. She hopes that NCCP will permanently collect your portrait, which shows the power and indomitability of women. so I appear here." Eugene said with a smile: "After the contract is signed, we will pay you a fee, the total amount is about 15,000 yuan, which is used to buy out the copyright of that photo .”
Pete feels that all this is like a dream. Rosalind Solomon, a well-known female photographer, once took a group of portrait photography works of "Outside the White House" during President Kennedy's administration.
Any American photographer may have seen her portrait works, hoping to learn some portrait shooting skills, but now, this female photographer actually fell in love with her own work? And recommended it to NCCP?
One photo, the other party is willing to pay me 15,000 yuan?
"Do you have time to go to New York recently? I mean the recent schedule, because a contract needs to be signed, and Ms. Solomon also wants to talk to you about photography in person." The man who called himself Eugene asked.
Pete felt that his legs were a little fluttering, and he nodded vigorously: "Of course I have time, I can temporarily suspend business, I... oh, yes, I was selected to be a jury member in a lawsuit, and being a juror is mandatory, I can't say no, but I... I think if Ms Rosalind-Solomon would see me, I could apply to the court for a backup juror to take my place."
"Is that the software company's lawsuit against plagiarists?" Eugene asked, turning his head, now looking into Pete's eyes.
Peter nodded: "Yes, have you heard of it?"
"Of course, NCCP uses software from Lotus, and is no stranger to this company, so which side did you select as a juror? The plaintiff, the defendant, or the court?" Eugene asked as if chatting.
Pete shrugged: "I seem to have been selected by the defendant's lawyer team in the jury preselection pool."
"Then you'd better not talk about it when you meet Ms. Solomon. She hates plagiarists because she has been plagiarized. Although I know you don't vote casually, I guess if she knows your personal tendency If the plagiarist maintains a sympathetic position, I'm afraid she won't want to see you too much." Eugene said with a smile as if kindly reminding Pete that he needs to pay attention to some small problems in the meeting.
But Pete was not so stupid as to be exaggerated. He seemed to understand something from Eugene's eyes, and asked slowly:
“I seem to understand, I became a juror, and then my photography works will be appreciated and will be permanently collected.”
"Sounds like a coincidence, I hope it won't delay your court decision." Eugene nodded, but didn't admit it, just called it a coincidence.
Peter continued: "But I think the formal signing of the contract and the meeting with Ms. Solomon will happen after the trial?"
"Yes, calculated according to the time, it will be after the trial is over. After all, there are many contract clauses to be drawn up, and although Ms. Solomon decides to collect it now, there may be some changes in the middle. For example, Ms. Solomon discovered a better work. After all We have limited funds, so we can only keep improving." Eugene was very satisfied that the photographer in front of him understood his words.
Pete continued to ask: "I sympathize with the plagiarists, and maybe Ms. Solomon will change her mind."
"That's your own wild imagination. Believe me, we decided to collect your works mainly because your works are good enough." Eugene stretched out his hand to Pete and said goodbye with a smile: "I just came to inform you that your works will soon be collected by NCCP Message, I hope you arrange a good time, we will contact you at any time later, goodbye, Mr. O'Brien."
"I won't sympathize with plagiarists, I won't..." After thinking clearly, Pete said repeatedly.
Eugene walked out the door and did not respond to Pete's words behind him. After he walked out of the photo studio, Eugene got into a black commercial vehicle: "Inform Mr. Kennedy that the juror selected by the other side has settled for another juror."
The second update~ Sorry, it's a bit late~ The child has a small problem, which delayed some time.
(end of this chapter)