America 1982-Chapter 191 - 71: The Long-Awaited Care_4

But it was such a touch screen and the built-in system that the Stanford Computer Research Center had already spent an unknown amount of time and money on.

Although it’s not available for commercial use now, someone will see it as leading to another future, which is that if it continues to be developed and eventually becomes commercially viable, it likely means that many companies will no longer need receptionists, parking lots won’t need attendants, libraries won’t need surplus librarians...

"Where can I buy Trojan?" When it was Tommy’s turn to experience it, he looked at this product that seemed like a TV mounted on a stand and asked seriously.

The teaching assistant guiding the use was originally full of pride because every user had let out a "wow" to represent the shock of technology vividly presented before them,

but that proud expression was instantly shattered by Tommy Hawk’s question, leaving him with an embarrassed look as he turned to Tommy, "Classmate, you... it can’t answer your question, we didn’t input that, you... maybe you can ask something related to campus."

"Isn’t Trojan what students consume the most on campus?" Tommy smiled at the bespectacled teaching assistant, "Just kidding, I’ll change the question. Which Stanford University student apartment has the highest beauty quotient?"

This time the teacher didn’t even bother with him, just gave an apologetic smile to those in line behind, "Please wait a moment longer, this student’s experience time will be over soon."

"It’s a great invention, but not interesting enough, Teacher Cohen-Victor." Tommy tapped the screen a few times, watching its response, and then said to the assistant next to him, "I mean this screen’s technological content is very, very high, but only smart people and investors will understand the greatness of you developers. If I were you, when inputting the question bank, I would first conduct a survey among the students on campus, pick the hottest questions, input the answers, and I guarantee, you’d more easily get students from other majors to help spread word-of-mouth for you, and even outdo the stall with the longest queue right now. Many users don’t care how advanced the technology is, you need to attract them first with something fun or easy to understand."

"Who are you?" Seeing this student experiecing the touch screen while speaking in an instructive tone, the assistant asked somewhat displeased.

Tommy Hawk pointed to a distant booth bearing the EFF logo, "The stall with the most testers, I am the founder of that industry organization, Tommy Hawk, from Stanford University’s Department of Computer Science."

"If your booth wasn’t labeled with computers..." Teacher Victor paused in his speech and then said to Tommy, "Thank you for the suggestion, student, the two-minute experience time should be up now..."

Tommy reluctantly touched the touch screen one more time, then turned and walked towards his own booth. After Tommy had left, Victor shook his head slightly, "I thought Playboy had come here to attend the exhibition."

At the same time, Sophia ran up to catch up with Tommy, seeing him calmly visiting the exhibition, she approached and said, "Tommy, someone called the EFF booth and wants to talk to you."

"Susan can handle it, besides, aren’t the representatives of those small companies all on site? If someone is interested in the software, they will contact Mr. Benjamin Rosen, he’s the Executive Director of EFF. Don’t you see I’m currently despondent over Actor’s loss in court?" Tommy spoke of his company’s initial loss as if it was something unrelated to him.

It indeed had nothing to do with him, recently, in the Massachusetts court, Actor Corporation lost unsurprisingly, and the judge and jury, based on the Lanham Act, the 1976 Copyright Act, previous related infringement cases, ruled that Actor Corporation’s OSS software constituted copyright infringement against Lotus software, demanding Actor Corporation to cease development and sales of OSS immediately after the verdict and to recall the sold software, surrender all OSS sales data and software code, and compensate Lotus for the economic loss of thirty-five million Yuan caused by the infringement.

Actor Corporation chose to appeal to the Federal First Circuit Court and, because of the lobbying company and law firm activities, the circuit court, upon receiving the appeal, issued a stay of execution until the court made a decision, meaning that Actor Corporation would only comply with the file if they still lost after the circuit court’s ruling.

A total of one hundred and seventy-six amicus curiae lawyers also submitted a friend-of-the-court brief to the circuit court, claiming that the local court’s verdict was unclear and had a serious impact on the organization, asking to intervene again.

The stay of execution means Actor Corporation can still sell software during this period, but if they lost again, the software sold in the interim would also be counted under the prohibition, and Lotus’s claim amount would also continue to soar with increasing sales.

However, Tommy hadn’t attended from start to finish, only Holly and Jason stayed in Boston to coordinate with Delia on relevant work. Reportedly, the training work in Massachusetts was going very smoothly.

"Despondent?" But you just borrowed money from me to buy a Penthouse magazine," Sophia was taken aback and asked in confusion.

Tommy sighed, "That’s after reading it that I got despondent. Okay, who is it?"

"He said his name is Roland Hanson, he got it through Mr. Rosen..."

"Sugar daddy, I’m coming!" Tommy had only heard the name when he grabbed Sophia and ran towards their own EFF booth.

Sophia didn’t understand what ’sugar daddy’ meant and, seeing Tommy’s eyes shine, finished what she had to say, "He’s the Vice President in charge of product promotion and sales for Microsoft United States, but several founding members of EFF’s member companies say that Microsoft’s software is garbage."

"It’s indeed garbage, especially Microsoft’s document processing software Multi File, ranking seventeenth in domestic sales in the United States and thirty-first globally, worse than our OSS," Tommy said, reciting data he had already meticulously collected:

"But they have money, and knowing that Actor lost the first round, we need to be protected by kind colleagues, after all, we’re just fireflies."