Rebirth of America, this is my time

There are three people in this small office.

The gray-haired old man in a suit and tie sat behind his desk, with a stack of documents in front of him.

Two people, one fat, one thin, one short, and one tall, stood in front of the desk, their hands crossed on their lower abdomens, their faces tense and eager for relief.

"I want to know, is this the result of the investigation you gave me?"

The old man closed the document gently and tapped the table with his right index finger.

The sound of "tap-tat-tat" seems to be asking the subordinates' hearts, and the ensuing interrogation is to vent the anger in the heart——

"Have you read this report? Ethan Jones has worked for our Milohua for three years! And this report says that Ethan Jones should not know any R\u0026D secrets within our Milohua? At the same time, , it is also marked on it that he should have had no contact with our company’s engineers in the past three years? Do you believe this result? Do you believe it? Do you believe it???"

The suddenly raised voice made the two middle-aged men standing opposite the old man tremble.

The oncoming questions made them shake their heads like rattles, as they were already watching with their noses and noses.

The fat man standing to the left of the old man said with difficulty, "BOSS, actually we don't believe it either. But..."

"This result should be true."

The slightly fat man looked embarrassed and said: "BOSS, after receiving your order for a thorough investigation, we contacted the California branch and asked them to write a report on Ethan Jones's work in our Mi Luohua over the years. .”

"After getting the report, we found that Ethan Jones's first job after joining our Milohua was to follow the marketing department to market the Odyssey product and write guest invitations. In the process, he filled out received an invitation letter belonging to Nolan Bushnell. Therefore, after Atari created "Pong", the marketing department of the California company, or the leadership of Ethan Jones, in order to ignore To clear his responsibilities, he directly cut off Ethan Jones' normal work and only asked him to do some basic expatriate work. He has been waiting for us to hold him accountable before firing him, so..."

"BOSS, the embarrassing content in the report has appeared."

At this point, the fat man stopped.

He carefully looked at the old man, and after seeing that his expression was as usual and there was no sign of anger, he continued: "BOSS, if nothing else happens, the current document should be the final result, and it may also be the most true. Result. "Snake Game" should be Ethan Jones's own creativity, and at the same time, his cooperation with Atari should also be a coincidence."

"Because after receiving this report, we personally checked the work log of the engineering design team and found no ideas that were the same as "Snake Game", or in other words, even ideas similar to "Snake Game" were not found. No, so..."

However, before he could finish his words, the old man banged the table!

"Oh!!! Sxxt!!!"

He stood up angrily, stared at his subordinates with splitting eyes, and roared: "You mean, "Snake Game" is a clean game, right???"

"Or, you want to tell me that Ethan Jones and Atari are a good collaboration, right???"

"I……"

The fat subordinate opened his mouth slightly, not knowing how to answer.

The old man didn't give him a chance to speak, and continued to yell: "Do you think this result can satisfy me?"

"Or, can this result be accepted by the board of directors?"

"Can it be accepted by our parent company?"

"You have to know that it took a lot of effort for us to suppress Atari! It took a lot of effort for us to strangle their neck in developing new games! We have just proved to the market that we, Mi Luohua, are not easy to mess with! Not everyone can Bullying!"

"Then what?"

"Nolan Bushnell gets another breather by licensing new games?"

"More importantly, is this new game made by our former employees?"

"If all this is okay, then who are we? Clowns?"

Drops of saliva are flying all over the sky.

An old man with white hair and a ferocious face.

The bulging veins in his neck looked like the roots of an old tree, while the red cheeks looked like blood pressure rising sharply.

After taking a breath for a while, he sighed and said, "Did you know? After the Los Angeles Times reported on "Snake Game", the leader of the parent company we were in contact with already called me to ask. He Ask Ethan Jones, the inventor of "Snake Game", why he is a former employee of ours? Why was he able to have no results in the past three years? Why did he create classics as soon as he left Mirowa?"

"He also asked me why three years ago, as soon as Ethan Jones entered the company, he contributed to the birth of Atari? Three years later, just after he was fired from us, he saved Atari from falling into hell. come out?"

"He doesn't understand how all of this happened, and he doesn't believe that it's all a coincidence, because even Hollywood screenwriters don't dare to write this kind of plot, so... you understand what I mean, right?"

Although the old man's voice had become calmer, the two subordinates standing in front of him felt even stronger oppression.

Their eyes were lowered and they did not dare to look up.

But at the same time, they also have a clear mind and know exactly what the BOSS wants to do.

It’s nothing more than trying to figure out the problem and fix it.

The former, find out the problem, that’s Ethan Jones.

This guy invented a popular game right after he was fired by Mi Luohua. This fact surprised Mi Luohua, and he even suspected that Ethan Jones plagiarized their internal ideas.

There is no way, who told them that they have all been diagnosed with PTSD?

There are still more than 20 rights protection lawsuits that have not been completed, but the former employee who was recently fired has come up with a popular game, which everyone will find problematic.

And if it was just these, then forget it, because after their investigation, "Snake Game" had nothing to do with them, it was just an accident.

But the publisher of "Snake Game" forced them to continue to investigate this matter, which was not problematic.

Because the collaboration between Ethan Jones and Atari is such a coincidence!

The coincidence makes people wonder if this is a deliberate arrangement by someone!

You see, I fired the employee, and he released a popular game; I killed the competitor, and he immediately released a popular game; more importantly, these two guys are still hiding We did it together...

When such outrageous and outrageous things come together, who would believe you if you say there is nothing wrong!

But the problem is, after their investigation, they really didn't find any clues.

This result makes things really difficult to handle.

Thinking of this, the fat man and the thin colleague next to him looked at each other.

The tall and lanky man took a deep breath and said: "BOSS, we understand what you mean, but it is really difficult to let Ethan Jones take the responsibility for poor management on our behalf."

"For example, we can suspect that Ethan Jones and Atari have a premeditated alliance, but no one will believe this, including ourselves. After all, when Odyssey was launched, almost everyone was not optimistic about home game consoles For this product, whether it’s us, IBM, or Motorola, they all feel that home game consoles and electronic games are not affordable entertainment items for the public.”

"So, even if we forcefully say that Ethan Jones is the spy planted by Nolan Bushnell in our Mirohua, because after Ethan Jones was fired by us, he gave his newly invented game to Ya Dali Release... I think even if the court really accepts our case, after it goes to court, the judge and jury will think that our brains are broken."

Having said this, the tall and thin man looked at the leader uneasily.

The white-haired old man was silent for a moment, and then nodded, "You are right."

The leader's understanding relieved the two subordinates.

But at the same time, the old man also said: "I know that Ethan Jones may really have no problem, but we must let him have problems now. Because these things are too coincidental, and the coincidental company no longer believes us. Or, The board of directors has already suspected that the failure of Odyssey is not a problem with the product itself, but a problem with our promotion method and internal management."

"If we don't have a problem, then why can Atari succeed when it plagiarizes ideas? And, after we fire an employee, his ideas can also succeed?"

"This kind of thing only happened once, and I could report it to the board of directors that it was an accident. But after two or three times, they no longer believed it was an accident and only thought it was inevitable."

"So, in order to let the board of directors, let the leaders of the parent company know that we don't have a problem, then Ethan Jones ... has to have a problem. It's not a question of the truth, it's a question of how to keep our jobs."

"I think you should be able to understand this, right?"

The old man's question made the two people present look tense.

The office fell into silence again.

The weird silence seemed to be a serious psychological struggle, but the deep breath after a moment was the best proof that he had come up with an idea.

The fat guy looked at the old man and said, "BOSS, I want to ask you something."

"you say."

"What step do we need to take to prove that we have no problems? Is it to successfully initiate a lawsuit, successfully win the lawsuit, or let the other party take the initiative to propose a settlement?"

This question made the old man think for a moment and said, "Although I know that the possibility of winning the lawsuit is almost zero, if we want to completely eliminate the board of directors' doubts about us, we must win the lawsuit."

"Okay BOSS, I understand." Fatty nodded and said, "Then we can only sue Ethan Jones and Atari for infringing our patents."

‘? ’ The old man narrowed his eyes and asked, “They violated our patent? When did it happen?”

The fat man looked serious and said, "As long as we are willing to sue, they can infringe the law at any time."

These words made the old man frown, because he didn't know what the fat man was talking about.

But the next second, the tall and lanky man had already spoken, and said in a loss of voice: "You don't want to use the 8480 patent licensed to us by Sanders Industrial to sue him, do you?"

"We'll get a bad reputation if we do that!"

"So what?" Fatty didn't care, "From the perspective of that patent, Ethan Jones and Atari have infringed!"

"You have to know that our goal now is not to find the truth, but to clear the board of directors of their doubts about us."

"In this case, as long as the lawsuit can be successful, what does it matter if you lose your reputation?"

"You..." The thin man's Adam's apple twitched, and he wanted to say something else.

But when the words came to his lips, no sound came out.

The old man frowned when he heard the conversation between the fat and thin people.

Although he didn't understand, it didn't matter because his subordinate's firm words were the answer he wanted.

"Very good." The old man's face, which had been serious all day, finally showed happy fluctuations, "I think you have a solution."

"Then I'll leave this matter to you."

"No problem." Fatty nodded, "BOSS, don't worry, I will communicate with the legal department and file a lawsuit against them by September this year at the latest, and you can hear the good news within a month at most."

The old man liked the news that his subordinate had a winning chance, but at the same time he was also a little confused.

"September? It's June now, why is there such a long interval?"

The leader's curiosity made Fatty laugh, "BOSS, it's very simple, because "Snake Game" is not popular enough, we have to wait until it is sold all over the country. Only in this way can we maximize our profits."

“When we have all given up our reputation, it’s not too much to make a little more money, right?”

In the dim office, the fat man's facial features were a little blurry.

But the half-joking words made the old man nod happily, "It's not too much."

The corners of the old man's mouth raised slightly, "Even... quite correct."

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