We all know that one of the great difficulties faced by Huawei, Google is based on the US government's ban, Huawei cell phone is no longer allowed to offer Google Mobile Services (GMS) in the use of its Android system. Android is Google to provide a set of open-source operating system.
The face of open source software, many domestic large enterprises tend to hold a simple "ism", that this was just a "free lunch", and Huawei, have demonstrated that this "free" lunch afraid also a price to pay.
But block chain industry is different, almost the world's leading technology block chain is completely open source, either from Bitcoin to an Ethernet Square, or to the nearest Boca, you will not see the development of these projects who went to apply for a patent for the technology. They do just the opposite, they will complete the code published, anyone can get free, research and re-use.
The so-called "open source" is short for open source is often used to refer to the source code can be any computer software acquired, the copyright holder of this part of the software rights reserved under the provisions of the agreement and the software allows the user to learn, modify and distribute the software to anyone for any purpose.
"Open source" is almost block chain technology is currently the only viable way, you may want to provide a system for everyone involved mutual trust, openness and transparency is the premise of all, and open source is the only option open and transparent. Information on the block chain is completely transparent, every line of code must be able to let others can see, in order to ensure trust.
Return mechanism of open source software
In fact, the initial open-source software is not a new thing, the computer community almost in formation, had already seen a lot of open source software, and to this day, the famous Linux and Android are open source software.
For a long time, since almost no income, so that the open source community to become experimental site is just a group of passionate geeks offer.
The block chain is most great thing is, he let open source software development people can obtain benefits, and may even be enormous benefits, but no longer as in the past, almost the image of a kind of "beggars" appears in the software industry .
How to make it open-source software to generate revenue, block chain technology uses a clever way is called a "fuel tokens" of. Anyone using a block chain service system, it is necessary to use the system's own tokens, and others involved in maintenance of the system to gain bonus tokens of the system. Thus constituting a possible internal economic and ecological cycle, so that the whole system can operate themselves.
The early because people can participate in the development or investments tokens, due to the limited number of tokens in a certain time, and the system is due to the increased number of people involved and lead to increased use of tokens demand, so that the token value increase. So, as long as the system is more and more needed, then an early participant can derive benefits.
Once a technology has been recognized as some of the people, will soon form a small community. Community will be based on their own choice, we continue to move forward or gradually dying out. The technical community and the pursuit of recognition, we can call it "community consensus."
If the technology community more attractive, it will attract more people to join, the more people involved, we can be called "consensus" stronger, otherwise weaker. And counter-intuitive to most people, the core competitiveness of the block chain technology is not the code, but the technology community "consensus."
So you just by copying the code block chain software is to not get equal value, just as you can not just copy via Bitcoin, can become another have the same value of Bitcoin. You have to get the community "consensus" can, because the "consensus" is representative of the true value of open source software.
Another level of competition
that most people may not realize, may block the chain industry will be the fastest growing industries in human history, because it is a completely open source industry, every technical progress can be immediately others see, and will be discussed and studied quickly, then can be falsified or absorbed in a very short period of time.
Block chain in the world's technology can already form a closed loop. Those developers involved in the chain to block the open source community, can already derive revenue and earnings due to the high lead began to become more competitive.
The traditional business of large companies' patents thinking "is only established traditional business thinking in the past war, hoping to protect their own turf by" patent ", I am afraid that this way of thinking in the future of the open source world, will become increasingly difficult.
At the national strategic level, we can see that regulators hope that we can achieve the technology of "self-controlled" block chain in the field. The public chain itself is open source, so long as the country has enough people really be able to participate in these public chain of development, really thoroughly understand these technologies is the ability to achieve "self-control."
Rather than as they are now, each of these large companies are trying to open source technology for himself that he is just where the "tinkering" behind closed doors and then turned into a completely closed thing.
In my view, really the open source technology that can be absorbed completely "self-control" technology must be completely abandoned in traditional areas "patent thinking", the effort to build our own strength open source community, the only way to the future open competition to gain a foothold.
In this issue since finishing Longhash public number, author: James Gong
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