Soon, Xinlang Marketing Director contacted the founder of winzip: Philip Katz through Lisa Online.

I wouldn’t know this without contacting him, but after contacting him I found out that Philip Katz is actually a hacker.

A well-known hacker in the United States. However, what he does is different from traditional hackers.

Traditional hackers show off their skills by overcoming the US military's defense systems.

But this hacker is not like that.

He was originally a programmer and a self-taught hacker. His usual hobby is to dig out various vulnerabilities without making profit. It is purely a personal hobby.

This is just like ordinary people who like to play "Honor of Kings" after get off work, read novels such as "Rebirth of the Demon Life", or go traveling.

This is purely a personal hobby. Philip Katz's hobby is to find loopholes.

And he discovered the most irritating thing. That is, data compression technology is all in the hands of big companies, such as IBM.

You know, hard drive space is very small nowadays, which forces users to spend a high price to buy a hard drive with larger space.

Often, those large companies have very mature data compression technologies that can achieve ultra-high compression ratios.

Philip Katz was very angry about this kind of thing.

Especially in the DOS era, that is, in 1988 AD, the Internet had just begun to take shape, and the most popular one was an electronic bulletin board (bbs) that used telephone lines to dial up to log in to a service platform built by others at home to exchange information.

)system.

This system is somewhat similar to today's forums and news groups. Because webmasters forward messages to each other, it has become a huge information network (Huiduo.com).

In the inter-era before Qin Feng introduced cable modem technology to China, there were dozens of such BBSs in China. Qiu Bojun, the author of the famous word processing software wps, and Zhu Chongjun, the author of cced, were both very famous back then.

Personal webmaster. This method can not only transmit text information, but also allow users to upload files to the site's computer for other users to download. Since the access speed of the telephone line is pitifully slow, it is really annoying to transmit large files through bbs.

A painful thing.

Therefore, using file compression technology to reduce the size of files and compress multiple files into one packet has become a skill that BBS users must master. At that time, a compression method called arc was more popular on American BBS.

Technology, since it is a compression technology developed by a commercial company, there is a fee to work with this software.

Many people don't have that much money. Therefore, they can only choose to transfer slowly.

At that time, Philip Katz was a young boy who was addicted to BBS. Because he often hung out on BBS, he was very dissatisfied with the charges of arc. He developed a program called pkarc. This program was fully compatible with arc and could compress and decompress.

Compress arc files. In this way, a large number of arc users naturally turn to Philip Katz's free software.

Arc's production company took Philip Katz to court in anger, and the court naturally ruled that Philip Katz was prohibited from continuing to develop and disseminate pkarc. This judgment did not dampen Philip Katz's fighting spirit, but aroused his desire to fight with him.

arc's determination to fight to the end. In the virtual world, freedom and equality are always the permanent pursuit of real programmers. He gave up the development of pkarc and vowed to write a better compression software than arc to defeat arc. This

A lawsuit created the emergence of a programming genius, and also created a file standard in the Internet era. A few weeks later, the zip format that later dominated the entire BBS world and even the inter world was issued for the first time in the hands of Philip Katz.

A loud cry!

This was the birth of the zip format later. Naturally, with the birth of the zip format, arc company quickly disappeared. After all, there was only one paid software, and a company with such a single charging model would naturally not be able to operate for a long time.

However, Philip Katz also suffered retaliation and was fired from the software company where he worked. As for the reason, it is unknown. However, some people in the industry speculated that it was probably the arc company.

After all, Philip Katz was the first person in the world to defeat a company with a piece of software.

This kind of deprivation of people's wealth is like killing one's parents, and it is natural for people to take revenge.

After losing his job, Philip Katz also tried to find a job. But unfortunately, no company was willing to hire him. Therefore, he made a living by doing odd jobs and writing a little code for others.

This kind of pressure in life, as well as the huge pressure brought by the constant updates of winzip, made him suffer from alcoholism!

Once you become addicted to alcohol, your income will become even more difficult.

This is also the reason why Philip Katz sold 35% of his shares so easily when Jiang Yong contacted him. As for the price, it was very small.

Jiang Yong only spent tens of thousands of dollars to obtain 35% of the shares.

After all, this is a free software in itself, and Philip Katz did not receive a penny of benefits before this. At the same time, it also got into huge trouble, causing him to live in poverty.

Tens of thousands of dollars is already a lot of money to him.

As for whether he regrets it, for Philip Katz, this question is too cruel.

He relied on his passion and the spirit of sharing the Internet to create winzip without seeking fame or fortune, but it caused trouble and made him impoverished, which he did not expect.

To ask him if he regrets it would be too cruel a question.

"Mr. Wang, I did contact the owner, but the problem is that he is dead!" the marketing director said.

"What? Dead?" Wang Zhidong was stunned, "How did you die?"

"He died at home. He still had a wine bottle in his hand when he died. The news coming from over there seems to be that he died of alcohol overdose!" said the technical director.

Wang Zhidong frowned. Wait, now that he is dead, don’t we no longer have to pay him?

"It depends on the other party's will. If there is no will, then it depends on whether there are family members. So, Mr. Wang, we need to send someone to the United States immediately to contact his family." The legal consultant said, "With the authorization of the family, we may even

Be anti-customer!”

"Yes! Hurry, leave for the United States!" Wang Zhidong stood up immediately and went to the United States!

At this moment, Qin Feng also learned the news.

"Dead? Why did he die suddenly?" Qin Feng was surprised.

"It's alcoholism! But I don't know the details yet. I'm planning to go to the United States to attend his funeral!" Jiang Yong said.
Chapter completed!