America 1982-Chapter 611 - 136: Jason and Susy, the Foreign Clan Leaders of the Hawk Family_3

Tommy didn’t fret over whether his example resembled Mississippi or New York, and continued, "It doesn’t matter. By that time, if my child burns a black man, those nannies merely need to tell the public that the investigation was crystal clear, that the black men tied themselves to the crosses and ignited the gasoline, just a typical case of self-immolation. The mistake was the black men’s. They went to the KKK’s club to provoke and harass with their self-immolation, causing the white poet there to suffer severe psychological trauma. This is a serious act of racial discrimination, and the poet is considering suing the dead black men’s families for emotional damages."

"Aren’t you being too extreme? Even as an SSD member, I think those black men who self-immolated you’re talking about seem quite pitiful." After hearing about black men being burnt and the murderer then suing the victims’ families for emotional damages, Jason’s face was full of the expression of wanting to curse but not being able to:

"That’s why, a nanny’s salary is far from enough... no, or rather, if you need loyal retainers, you need to display adequate control and power to make them willing to believe in and protect you, and you also have to tie their interests together with yours or your family’s. Obviously, the control you’re showing now doesn’t seem sufficient in your view. Got it, damn it’s the free, democratic, and appealing America. Are you sure this country only attracts humans? What kind of creature like you was attracted here?"

After finishing, Tommy shrugged, "After hearing all this, it’s not hard to understand why I’m always so aggressive, right? There’ll come a time to stop, and when it’s time to stop, I’ll disappear like the Rockefeller family, assimilate into this country, and spend my days researching how to live longer."

"Are you telling me all this because you see me as one of your retainers?" Jason suddenly looked at Tommy with a suspicious twist in his eye.

Tommy immediately explained, "No, father Jason, you know I’m full of gratitude and admiration for you. You are truly the Hawk family’s savior and honorary patriarch. Without you, I might not even have received my Stanford diploma by now."

"Don’t stop, keep the compliments coming."

Tommy continued, "As for those three illegitimate children of yours who don’t care whether they’re dead or alive, they could consider it, with the principle of not wasting, I suppose."

"Go to hell. I... After all this nonsense, you still haven’t said why we’re going to see the professor first." Seeing someone sit down to rest on a nearby bench, Jason timely changed the subject.

"If we don’t notify Professor Winton first and secretly push Amiga, the browser, and MCI-Mail onto the market, with Professor Winton’s temperament as an internet libertarian, he’d probably fall out with us immediately. If he turns against us, so would the batch of freedom-loving bigwigs behind him. Afterward, Stanford University would also stand by the professor and condemn us. Eventually, we’d become Silicon Valley’s public enemy. Even if we donated all our properties and all the tadpoles in our bodies, we wouldn’t be able to win back Stanford and Professor Winton’s forgiveness," Tommy explained with a restored calm and gentle expression:

"But if I, like a naive young man, excitedly went to tell Professor Winton that I did it, that I even got Stanford University to file for many related patents. I want to seize the operating system market. What would the professor think of me? In his eyes, Tommy is an arrogant young man, thinking he has everything under control. This cruel world will teach him a brutal lesson. The patents held by Stanford will be promptly invalidated by court decisions, and the decision will be expedited by the push of big companies. Soon I will see a dejected Tommy in front of me. So, at the moment, in the professor’s eyes, my image is somewhat greedy and impetuous, but not too bad, seemingly redeemable. I just need to attend more of his internet classes, listen to his thoughts on internet freedom, and understand why the internet needs an open and free environment. After that, I’d quickly turn back into an excellent young man."

"The thing is, the professor’s predictions are probably very accurate. I’ve always felt your patent moat is completely ineffective. You know, Microsoft’s CEO Bill Gates’ dad is a board member of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, both father and son are board members of that chamber, and his dad is also the chair of the King County Bar Association in Seattle and the entire Washington State Bar Association. The number of lawyers who have gone on from his led association to American judicial positions are more than all the California girls I’ve been with. Otherwise, why do you think Microsoft settled in Seattle and has almost never lost a plagiarism lawsuit? Trying to delay with patents is like Susy trying to stop me from taking off her clothes. Before I even make a move, the clothes have already dropped," Jason immediately posed another challenge after hearing Tommy’s explanation:

"Previously, a small company’s software was plagiarized by Microsoft. They thought it was a sure win, but the lawyers and company president somehow violated some bizarre state law in Seattle, got expelled from the state by the police, couldn’t attend the court ruling on time, and the case kept getting delayed until Microsoft found evidence to overturn the ruling. What was supposed to be an eighty million dollar compensation turned into Microsoft only needing to pay a few million in an out-of-court settlement."

With his years of experience working in Silicon Valley, Jason was well aware of Microsoft’s industry power. Therefore, he found Tommy’s idea of using patents as a moat to delay the entry of big companies like Microsoft and Apple completely useless. Other companies might take a normal lawsuit process for maybe a year or longer, but Microsoft’s lawsuits would proceed at least three times faster because they had their people among the lawyers and judges with the huge organization of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce willing to serve as a friend of the court on their behalf.