Xing Baohua was surprised by Nobuyuki Idei's arrival; he hadn't expected Sony to act so quickly.
It seems Mitsui Tousaburo relayed his words very effectively. He was probably scared off by Xing Baohua's comment about what would happen if Sony were shorted!
At the large tea table, Xing Baohua didn't have time to pour water for the young Sony executive, so he called over a woman to serve him.
She was in her thirties, looked very quiet, and her business attire was indeed a bit... questionable.
No wonder so many people love JD.com; there's a reason for it. To put it in our own words, nothing tastes better than dumplings... but nothing tastes better than your sister-in-law.
They mean roughly the same thing.
Ripe peaches taste best.
Japanese tea ceremony is different from ours. They have a special room where you have to kneel on tatami mats in front of a small tea table and slowly savor the tea.
Xing Baohua's tea table, on the other hand, resembled the large tea table used by nouveau riche in later generations, emphasizing grandeur.
Sitting is more comfortable than kneeling, isn't it?
The Japanese have their own way of boiling water. They make a small pit in the middle of the tatami mat, and hang their special iron kettle on a chain hanging from the ceiling to boil water.
They're particular about things, but it's just fussy and wastes time.
Xing Baohua boiled water directly in an electric kettle, and then the young woman from the administration department started making tea.
Anyway, Xing Baohua's grand tea ceremony disrupted the cultural atmosphere. The steps were all messed up, and the tea ceremony mood was ruined.
“Mr. Izui, you’re in such a hurry to see me, you don’t just want to get to know me, do you?” Xing Baohua said, making a gesture of sipping tea.
"Thank you. Besides getting to know you, I just wanted to know what Sony needs to do to work on equal footing with you." Nobuyuki Idei looked very refined and spoke very politely.
But it's precisely these kinds of people that you should be wary of. A smiling tiger, hiding a dagger in a smile—that's the perfect description of them.
When they ask for your help, they will appear harmless like livestock, but once the other party gets the chance, they will be extremely ruthless.
"I'm in business! I wonder if Mr. Izui has ever heard our old saying, 'Harmony brings wealth'!"
"I've heard of it, but I wonder where your amiability lies?"
"If you hadn't provoked me, would I have bothered with you? How many times has this happened since Colombia?" This guy was talking about making money through peace, but now he started criticizing the other party.
Nobuyuki Idei is a bit frustrated! Isn't business competition normal? Even bidding for a project, or the fierce competition at an auction, is normal, right? How did it turn into a life-or-death struggle?
In the end, Nobuyuki Idei still stated that what Sony was doing fell within the scope of commercial competition.
Everything is legal and compliant.
"So you're saying what I did was illegal and non-compliant, and that you're the ones infringing on the patent, not me?" Xing Baohua said angrily.
This sentence made Nobuyuki Izui so frustrated that he almost vomited blood.
Before Xing Baohua joined Nikon, they were like brothers, and Sony could use their products freely, since the patents belonged to Nikon.
With just a change of president, all the achievements went to Xing Baohua. Sony had no choice but to suffer in silence.
In order to get Xing Baohua to drop the lawsuit and avoid greater losses for Sony, they had no choice but to bow down and beg for peace, letting Xing Baohua say a few words. He's been playing the subservient role for hundreds of years, so it's easy for him to play the subservient role for another half hour.
Let Xing Baohua get tired of his denunciations, and then let's talk about some of Sony's conditions.
Xing Baohua is currently holding back some technical skills he hasn't taught, right? Then teach him, but on one condition: it must be limited to the Nikon Labs. Once he leaves that place, it will be a breach of contract and he will have to compensate Sony with a huge sum of money.
This rule must be followed.
Why wouldn't we agree? Sony is begging for mercy right now. Xing Baohua can make it possible for people to learn from him openly and honestly.
You can use the software openly and legitimately, and then copy it out and study it slowly.
As for leaving the lab being considered a breach of contract, do you really think Xing Baohua is an honest kid?
Considering Sony's ambition, we'll agree to drop the lawsuit.
They simply had the administration draft an agreement, and that was it. They didn't even have a lawyer look at it, and Xing Baohua, seeing the English text mentioning teaching materials and restrictions on its use, paid no attention.
In front of Nobuyuki Izui, he made a phone call to the branch office in Japan, not caring that it was the middle of the night. Anyway, the person in charge answered the phone.
After daybreak, tell the lawyer to withdraw the lawsuit.
This matter is now considered closed.
When Xing Baohua returned to the MINIK Lab, he found that Sony had indeed sent someone to teach him. He thought it was nothing, but Chen Shuoyue told him that Sony didn't have good intentions either.
When using the software, an encryption program is required.
This is the prototype of a dongle!
The software does indeed have an electronic encryption system. Even if Xing Baohua copies the software, he cannot open it without unlocking the encryption.
The only way to open it is through brute force.
To decipher it, we need to send it to the capital base, and we'll also need to borrow those experts and supercomputers.
The time depends on the length of the encryption.
Moreover, dongles are generally 16 to 32 bits or more.
It's more difficult and takes longer.
Sony's dongle is a floppy disk. The floppy disk also contains a set of digital programs. It is not a simple password, but rather uses the program driver to generate a series of dynamic keys.
Do you know that USB key issued by the bank? You need to plug that thing into your computer for online transfers and other things, so that the key on it can be used to proceed with the transfer.
The principle is the same as that one, only the bank's is much more complicated.
Xing Baohua asked Chen Shuoyue, "Can you copy it, disassemble it, and study it?"
"It's not a big problem," Chen Shuoyue said.
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