The Chinese people's concern for the Chinese software industry, many of this industry: near the overseas software giants, far from the rapid rise of neighboring Indian software industry, China software industry in which the survival space is very small, the Chinese software industry is urgently needed to find A development path for national conditions. Increased government procurement to China's software industry more support is on the one hand, transforming traditional software development models, driving independent technological innovation is another road. This is not difficult to understand why "'2004 China Open Source Software Competition" attracted so much attention to the government, enterprises and colleges.
When you "surf" on the Internet, you may not realize that the website you have viewed may be a Linux operating system, an Apache server, is a MySQL database, is a PHP language ... You can also freely get these software sources Code, and can be used free (most cases) without being accused of piracy and infringement without being compliant with certain licensing rules. If these open source software (Open Source Software), these sites you love may disappear, and may not even appear at all. Although "Open Source Code" is presented in 1998, it is formally proposed, but its ideological origin is accompanied by the entire computer operating system and Internet birth and development process. When the Internet is coming to China, the "open source" seed has also fallen on the land of China.
On January 22, "China Open Source Software Development Forum", from industry experts, entrepreneurs and government-related departments discussed open source software in China's development prospects and issues.
The copyright protection of the software industry should not be abused
Ni Guangnan, academicians in the Chinese Academy of Engineering, believes that this competition is actually an investigation on the development status of China's open source software. In just a few months, there are hundreds of pieces of work, which will be explained. Among them, some products have been recognized by marketization. It is worth mentioning that these software products do not have large-scale capital input as those commercial software. Ni Guangnan said, "We all know that the Indian software industry is very developed, but its business is mainly outsourcing, innovation requirements are not high. The outer proportion of China software industry is only about 10%, more software development is built in our own application. On the basis. Therefore, open source movement is more significant to the Chinese software industry. In addition, in the sense of information security and autonomous research and development, open source also provides better support. China's current software research and development The software level is the weakest, because of this, promoting open source has become a consensus in the Chinese software industry. "
Zhao Yuhai, chairman of the Creative Software Alliance, believes that scientific and technological progress itself is the "open source code" cause, the Internet's generation itself is the result of "open source", rooted in sharing and collaborative value concept. In order to protect innovation, it must be necessary for intellectual property protection, but the copyright of the application in the current software industry has appeared signs of abuse, more than people's ability to afford, but curb innovation.
Computer education cannot be simplified into product training
Qin Yong, deputy general manager of Shanghai Zhongbiao Software, said that there is an objective and fair evaluation of open source code. Especially its industrial maturity, Qin Yong believes that it is still in the transition period, that is, the application is still promoting, the product is still being improved, and users are gradually accepting. He said, "Open source software will be greatly developed. As a software company can't wait after it is mature, it will lose the opportunity." Qin Yong emphasized that the free software also needs norms and standards. He said that although two groups have two groups in drafting, they have not been introduced. Qin Yong believes that in this regard, it is unrealistic to form a unified standard in this regard, he hopes that the government has active in terms of standard development.
Professor Wang Zhiqiang, chairman of Xinhua Technology Co., Ltd., is concerned that there are still many empty phenomena in the industrial development of China's open source software, such as core technology, we are obviously insufficient in deep talents at deep. He believes that computer education at this stage has some problems in the system. For example, some computer education is simplified to become a minority software (such as Microsoft's window system) product application training. Wang Zhiqiang said that open source codes provide a chance to achieve industry breakthroughs for the Chinese software industry. Hua Jinpeng, Vice President of Beijing University of Aeronautics University, believes that China's open source software movement and the overall development of software industry have problems with talent training. The university is only a solution to this problem, and the growth of the social environment is also important to the growth of software talents. He believes that in China's software companies, there is still a lack of sufficient handsome leader.
Hua Jinpeng said that China's software industry must be patient in software talent training, and we must be determined in the development of industries. There must be confidence in comparison with India.
Open source software's opportunity is not just to China
Liu Mingbao, general manager of the company, said that from this "China Open Source Software Competition", the government is quite attached to the open source software movement, and many young faces of the competition have representative of the future hope of software development. , Give domestic software companies with a lot of confidence. However, Liu Mingbao stressed that "We regard open source exercises as a chance to be used in China software industry, this itself has no problem, but the opportunity of open source software is not only giving China, but the opportunity is equal. According to me Knowing, Russia, India, South Korea has increased investment in open source software. We applied a unified development strategy, there is something, do not do, form a relatively concentrated advantage, and seek substantive breakthroughs. "
Liu Mingbao frankly, creating a research and development of desktop Linux system, the international Linux industry also attaches great importance to it, I hope that China can play a leadership in this field. However, the Linux system currently has a variety of disadvantages. First, the support of hardware is not as good as Microsoft's Windows system. The second is that the data format is squeezed, and the Windows file format is not open, but has become the fact standard. Another is the lack of support for application developers, there is not enough software, it is unable to form a real user group.
Liu Mingbao suggested that the government can regulate some standards: such as requiring hardware vendors to provide the conditions for Linux as access;, for example, the monopoly is prevented on data and document formatting standards. For example, Microsoft stuffed into many of our own things in webpage production. It is not the public standard of the Internet, which is actually the development of the Internet.
Government support cannot be limited to software procurement
Yu Chao, director of Beijing Information Office, said, "We have chosen Linux products in government procurement at the end of 2001, and the praise and accusations of this are pressure. Because we know that some products of Linux are the office of civil servants. Standard still has a big distance. After the "sail project", we have set a problem among more than 50 software in half a year, although it is soon solved, but we also found that the domestic software industry should be in product development. Several questions: First, R & D models, we lack the masters of open source software cores, the development of open source software also has to go to international cooperation, including cooperation with hardware companies. Second, find the right business model It is said that there is also a road to cooperate between the country's software companies. The third is to find a breakthrough in the market. The government is the main way to drive the no loan, and must promote the application. "
Yu Chao believes that the government's software procurement cannot be separated from the hardware environment, and it is necessary to purchase the software corresponding to the software.
