Because the potential benefits involved are too huge, the great success of "Happy Farm" naturally caused controversy within Igret about whether it should open its own platform to third-party game developers.

Even if the success of "Happy Farm" is phenomenally accidental, according to the current continuous explosion speed of the Internet, as more game content is launched one after another, Igret internally predicts that this will likely be an emerging field with an annual output value of no less than 10 billion US dollars.

At this stage, Egret Company has almost monopolized the online community field by relying on Facebook, ICQ and other services. The development of web games based on Flash animation technology is very difficult, and the cost is even more insignificant compared to the return. "Happy Farm" is the most direct proof of this, so Egret Company can form a game production team for development.

Even if you cooperate with the outside world, it is best to just be a EA that does not flow to outsiders.

Otherwise, it would be a little too generous and even a little stupid to hand over a large part of the profit generated by the platform's huge number of users to unrelated game manufacturers.

It was not until Simon arrived in San Francisco that this matter was finalized.

Continue to open up cooperation.

Not only in the field of online gaming, maintaining an open attitude towards foreign cooperation should be the fundamental development strategy of the entire Igrit Company.

The Internet is destined to be an open information platform.

If you choose to close it, it will only lead to the continuous escape of the Igret ecosystem by enterprises and users, and eventually lead to their gradual decline of trees lacking nutrients.

The former early Internet portal giants in China later basically transformed into online game companies.

For Egret, the great success of "Happy Farm" has obviously made the management discover a clearer way to monetize users. However, Simon did not want Egret to eventually become an online game company. He already has a broad layout at this stage, and it would be a waste of resources if he eventually became a game company.

On the other hand, even if he attaches great importance to search engines and social networks, Simon also does not want Egret to become an advertising company.

Simon's most fundamental vision is to hope that Egret will always maintain the positioning of his own technology company and promote the company's continuous long-term development through continuous technological innovation.

For example, this time in "Happy Farm", the game was mainly achieved through the latest Flas** page animation technology developed by Igret. Perhaps later generations have become commonplace with this technology, and it is even as common as the air and water in reality in the Internet environment. But in fact, for the current Internet, Flash is a huge innovation.

Because this seemingly uncomplexing innovation has brought about a new industry with a output value of billions and tens of billions of dollars, this is the ultimate power of scientific and technological innovation.

"Of course, I am not against everyone getting the benefits we should have from the game industry. You should discuss the specific implementation terms yourself. However, what I want to emphasize is that for Igret, everyone should have a broader pattern. Our goal is to the entire Internet, and we should not be deceived by the interests of a single field, which hinders our continued innovation and exploration."

Palo Alto, a small conference room at the headquarters of Igret.

Simon faced Tim Berners Lee, Jeff Bezos, Carol Butz and Alice Ferguson, who had advanced to the fourth giant of Igrit, and after saying this, seeing that no one raised any objections, he turned to another topic: "The free plan for IE browser needs to be advanced. Jeff, which manufacturers have not agreed on it now?"

In the original plan, after completing the repricing communication with major pre-installation manufacturers and network operators, IE browser will probably officially announce free before May, which means that the plan will be officially implemented before the end of April.

Because of the recent market and public opinion situation, Simon did not intend to wait any longer, but decided to implement it simply and neatly.

Several people looked at each other in the conference room, and Jeff Bezos said: "Mainly, several PC giants such as IBM and Toshiba, Japan, and AT-T's attitude is relatively persistent in the operators."

As Simon expects manufacturers. As for AT-T, as a telecom giant that has maintained national coverage of operations after the split in 1984, a few years ago, AT-T also chose to outsource related services to small operators everywhere for the responsibility because of its contempt for emerging Internet access services.

Until last year, AT-T finally reacted and began to seize the power of outsourcing operators and personally joined the competition for the Internet user field.

Although AT-T has been left far behind compared to AOL, which has a market share of up to 70%, no one dares to ignore the existence of this old giant.

Simon didn't want to know if there were other games, whether it was the manufacturer or operator who wanted to get more discounts, or the Westeros system's major companies jointly planned to stumbling on AT-T, or some senior executives deliberately delayed and wanted to gain more benefits from the IE browser. He just quickly said: "Personal computer manufacturers and network operators, referring to the cooperation plans of Compaq and American Online, which have been negotiated, to give those companies who are still hesitating time to consider the last three days. After three days, either sign the contract or they will no longer have to use our software in the future. I want you to officially announce IE free next Friday."

Carol Butz couldn't help but say, "Simon, are you too anxious? The counter-attack we are facing now... Well, the pressure on litigation is not that serious?"

Hearing the obvious pause in Carol's words, the others couldn't help but smile.

Obviously, what Butz wants to talk about is antitrust pressure, but because of Simon's punishment some time ago, the fierce female executive was obviously allergic to this word.

Things started with an email.

In a work email to Simon, Carol Butz described in detail the monopoly advantages that the Egret basic tool software currently has and how to maintain this advantage in the recent market public opinion environment.

Simon agreed with Carol's point of view and then fined the female executive one-tenth of her annual salary.

The reason is that Butz uses too much of the word ‘monopoly’ in his emails.

Simon then clearly emphasized at a small meeting of the core senior leaders of Igret that whether it is future emails, telephone communications, high-level meetings, or even private conversations, the word "monopoly" needs to be clearly avoided, because if you are not careful, these may be used as evidence of the authorities' antitrust investigation into Igret in the future.

This is not without precedent.

In the 1970s, Buffett acquired a newspaper called the Buffalo Evening News in Buffalo, New York. In order to squeeze out competitors' exclusive Buffalo newspaper market, Buffalt asked the newspaper, which had not had a Sunday edition in the past to release the Sunday edition to hit another "Messenger Express", which could barely survive only by relying on exclusive Sunday edition. At that time, Buffalo only had these two slightly powerful newspapers left.

In order to avoid being squeezed out, the Courier Express sued the Buffalo Evening News to use unfair competition to try to monopolize the Buffalo newspaper industry.

This lawsuit was originally unreasonable because the core of the federal antitrust law is to encourage competition rather than curb competition. The release of the Sunday edition of the Buffalo Evening News can increase the competition between Sunday paper media, which in theory can promote newspapers to improve the quality of news services to retain customers as much as possible. Therefore, the Buffalo Evening News is fully qualified to launch the Sunday edition.

The result was that Buffett lost the lawsuit.

The reason is that the investment tycoon happened to make a public statement of "Bridge Toll Station" during that time, saying that owning a newspaper that monopolizes a regional market is like owning a bridge toll station, and operators will be able to raise prices at will according to their own will.

Because of this obvious monopoly remark, a lawsuit that was easily won ended in failure.

Although the judge ultimately did not stop the Buffalo Evening News from publishing the Sunday edition, a series of very strict restrictive measures were formulated for Buffalo's newspaper in the verdict, which almost caused the Buffalo Evening News, which originally had a leading position, to fail to stick to it.

Buffett's $35 million investment in the acquisition of the Buffalo Evening News was the biggest investment of the other party in that era. At that time, the investment tycoon's personal net worth was only $70 million. Once the Buffalo Evening News went bankrupt, he might not have the current Berkshire Hathaway.

The reason for this disaster was Buffett's careless words.

Therefore, it is not just Buffett's case, but the most important principle of conduct that more than a dozen life experiences in my mind bring to Simon is that you can do many things, but you must not say them.

Just like the real monopoly of Igret.

Just like the deep-rooted racial discrimination in the United States.

And many other things.

There are too many politically correct norms in Western countries. In Simon's view, it is actually the "can't say" principle. You may not be in trouble if you do it, but if you say it, it is giving people a handle.

Simon was very satisfied with Bartz's outspoken female executive brakes in time, otherwise he would have planned to deduct one-tenth of the other party's annual salary. Although according to the equity reward agreement signed at the time, after the contract was fulfilled, the core executives who were all billionaires did not care about the current basic annual salary of hundreds of thousands of dollars, the attitude of his young boss cannot be ignored.

Also following everyone's smile, Simon quickly restrained his expression and said seriously: "Carly, this matter has nothing to do with recent public opinion and the investigation by the authorities. If IE keeps charging fees, it is crucial for Igritte. Even if I have been in a lawsuit for ten years, I will not give up easily. However, the free plan of IE, in addition to facilitating Igritte's latest technology, is the most important reason to fundamentally determine the market position of this browser software worldwide. Now everyone has realized the importance of the browser software interface.

In particular, in the federal government, we already have an absolute advantage and are not too urgent to worry about it yet, but globally, in order to avoid the Internet interface being controlled by Igret, some countries are already considering using government power to ask us to give up the exclusive rights of IE. You should know more about these things than me. The implementation of the free plan will make us still sufficient to maintain a strong market position even if we lose exclusive rights. So, there is only one week, and I will see the results next Friday. I don’t want any of you to delay this matter with any reason, do you understand?”

Simon stared at Bezos and others with sharp eyes. When they nodded, he then withdrew his gaze, looked down at the memo in front of him, and looked up at the female housekeeper and said, "Ali, about Wisconsin Senator Craig Ames accusing our under-building logistics and distribution center of voluntarily giving up the tax relief provided locally, so he doesn't have to pay attention to this matter. However, the recruitment plan of the distribution center needs to be in advance, and someone will contact you for the specific operation of this matter. You know why, so, I need you to cooperate absolutely, OK?"

Alice nodded.

The female housekeeper who has been paying attention to what happened recently certainly understands that there is no room for negotiation on this matter.

Last month, Sen. Craig Ames, a Democratic Wisconsin Congressman who proposed an "asset tax" program that was almost exclusively targeting Simon, has not stopped attacking the Westeros system for some time, and has recently pointed the finger at a tax relief package for a large logistics distribution center being built by Amazon Online Mall in Wisconsin.

As one of the seven most important large logistics and distribution centers in Amazon's next phase of development plan, once opened, it will directly bring about 1,500 long-term jobs to Wisconsin, and there are countless job opportunities created indirectly.

Moreover, unlike Silicon Valley engineers who require high threshold and professional skills, the recruitment requirements of distribution centers are very relaxed on age and education, which is very suitable for a large number of unemployed blue-collar workers on the traditional rust belt. Long-term and stable job opportunities that can provide comprehensive protection such as retirement medical care are even more rare.

1,500 long-term and stable job opportunities can almost support 1,500 families.

However, although the MP did not ignore all this, he still emphasized that the Westeros system should pay more, such as actively abandoning the tax reduction and other incentive plans provided by the local government for this project. This is obviously a nonsense, and it is even more disgusting than those who often stand on the moral high ground to force donations to the rich.

Tax exemption plans for emerging enterprises and large-scale projects are very common in all states in the United States. The discounts received by Igrit Company are just a practice. If you take the initiative to give up, on the premise that other companies enjoy exemption plans, it will increase Igrit's operating costs and reduce corporate competitiveness.

In fact, Simon can also cancel the Wisconsin distribution center construction plan. At worst, the tens of millions of dollars he has invested are wasted and he can afford it. However, of course, he can only think about this kind of impulse. Simon is not an impulsive person. The location selection of the seven logistics distribution centers under construction by Amazon has been carefully considered in many aspects. Rampantly giving up will even affect the next development of the Egret e-commerce business.

After talking about this, Simon looked at his memorandum again and began the next issue.

It was so busy that it was not until after six o'clock in the afternoon that Simon took Girl A back from the construction site of the Egret headquarters park in Mount View, which was under construction in Mountain View.

The villa is quite lively.

Naga Allman and Yasmin Gary experienced a little scare on Monday. Under Simon's arrangement, he ran to Tokyo on a Boeing 767 private jet with a man's Boeing 767 to relax. Today, he returned from Japan and learned that Simon was in San Francisco, so he flew here directly.

In addition to the two big fairies, Claire also brought a little fairy to come for supper.

In addition, there are a total of seven women in the villa of the luxury house, including Aliya, an Indian girl who is in charge of Simon's daily life recently and Deborah, a few Indian women are in the villa of the luxury house.

One man and seven women.

If this scene spreads, it will definitely be a lively media outlet.

When Simon arrived home, at least the girls who were very harmonious on the surface were preparing dinner in the kitchen, and the eagles were waving.

After a busy day, Simon went upstairs to take a shower and change his clothes first. Although he had no instructions, Aliya quietly followed him and followed Simon into the master bedroom upstairs.

He only planned to take a shower, and there was no need to let water out. Simon asked Aliya to prepare for her clothes and then entered the bathroom.

About ten minutes later, Simon wiped his wet hair, wrapped a large towel around his waist and walked out of the bathroom. He found that Aliya, who had prepared her clothes for her, did not leave. She bent down and folded a shirt by the bed repeatedly to pretend to be very busy.

Because of long-term practice of yoga, the girl's figure wrapped in a slim white shirt and black trousers when she bent down, with a very special graceful and charming figure.

Seeing Simon walk out of the bathroom, Aliya quickly straightened up, holding the man's shirt in her hand, and walked over and said, "Boss, yes, I'll give it to you."

After saying that, the girl felt something was wrong, so she quickly turned around and found the men's shorts prepared from the big bed and handed them over. Her eyes looked at Simon's strong chest, and her face was already blushing before she knew it.

Simon was not indifferent to the exquisite vases around him. He just took into account that it might change the working mentality of girls and would not easily eat them. After all, once the maid climbed onto the male owner's bed, it was often difficult to avoid going further and even coveting the female owner's position.

Then there is a turbulent home.

Looking at the Indian girl's reaction, Simon realized that although the girl would not refuse what she asked for, it was obviously not a seduction, so he asked, "Is there anything I want to tell me?"

When Aliya heard this, she was obviously guilty, but nodded subconsciously.

It seems to be serious.

Simon smiled, took the shorts from Aliya's hand, grabbed the girl's delicate chin and pinched it, and said, "Turn over first, and we will go to the next study room later to talk."
Chapter completed!