I am weak and friendly

Chapter 110 is correct; FOEW was written by Hirako.

At 6:30 p.m., the doors of elevator number 9, which was in the most remote location, opened. Lu Mingyuan, the boss of Linghai Technology, stepped out of the elevator with a bitter face and found Ze Ge leaning against the wall outside the elevator.

A girl dressed in a typical school uniform, with messy hair and bloodshot eyes, was scratching her head in a very unseemly manner, making her already messy hair even more disheveled.

Not far away, at the corner of the elevator, Gao Yuxiang stood there with a gossipy expression on his face.

Lu Mingyuan turned around and was about to go back into the elevator when Ze Ge called out to him, "Stop!"

"Ze... why aren't you off work yet?" Lu Mingyuan turned around with a wry smile and said.

"I'll block you."

"How did you know I would come back?" Lu Mingyuan scratched his head.

"Where else can you go?"

Lu Mingyuan's smile became even more bitter, but Brother Ze had no intention of letting him off the hook.

"Have you secured any investment?" Ze asked.

Lu Mingyuan spread his hands, smiled wryly, and said, "You know how things are these days."

"Boss, you need to step up your game! Use your charm!" Ze Ge said, exasperated. "How did you trick me into joining you back then? What promises did you make to me? Draw empty promises! Soothe them with sweet talk! Make those PowerPoint presentations! You're the succubus of the tech world!"

Not far away, Gao Yuxiang's eyes were almost bulging out.

Wait, what did I just hear? A tech succubus?
Is this the old man who, despite being dressed in a suit, looks utterly dejected?
Goodness gracious! The aesthetic sense of the tech world is truly extraordinary!

Gao Yuxiang had already imagined eight thousand words that could not be displayed.

Faced with Ze Ge's accusations, Lu Mingyuan could only smile wryly, then forcibly changed the subject: "You should wash your hair."

"I just showered yesterday! You know I get all worked up when I'm in a rush!" Li Ze was even more annoyed. "Boss, have you even tried?! Our company is really going to go bankrupt! The company we founded is going to die!"

“I’ve tried my best, Ze… I’ve done everything… but unfortunately I’m not the same person I used to be…” Lu Mingyuan said this with a particularly desolate voice.

“If only we had a great product…” Ze Ge said, “that might attract investment… but what products can make money these days! Ahhhh, I can’t see anything!”

She turned to look in the direction of the development team: "If only Brother Ban hadn't turned out like this..."

Lu Mingyuan sighed.

“I’m starting to fall behind the times too,” Ze said. “Although I hate to admit it, I finally understand how Ban feels… I could never have misunderstood someone else’s code before…”

They were hit hard, lost confidence, constantly doubted themselves, and continued to decline.

First it was the class monitor, then the boss, and now she's experiencing that process herself.

“We are no longer who we used to be,” Lu Mingyuan said.

Yes, we are not the same people we used to be.

Eight years into his entrepreneurial journey, he went from being full of youthful vigor and trying to change the world.

Now, they are at their wits' end and on the verge of bankruptcy.

Linghai Technology will ultimately be one of countless companies eliminated by the times.

It is a wave that will not be remembered.

The emergence of the new generation, in particular, has made them realize that they are already the old generation, about to be pushed onto the beach.

"Brother Ze, don't be discouraged! Pingzi is a freak, okay?" Gao Yuxiang said, watching the drama unfold.

He was glared at by Li Ze.

“By the way, Brother Ze, I’ve discovered something…” Gao Yuxiang added, “It’s related to Pingzi. It might be an opportunity for our company. Pingzi was here during the day, so I didn’t think I should say anything.”

"What's wrong?" Brother Ze asked, puzzled.

"You know about the open-source project that's been getting a lot of buzz lately called FEEW-core, right?"

"I think I've heard of it. It's supposed to be a translation app that helps people with brain injuries? But I've been too busy lately, so I haven't been paying attention to it..." Ze Ge said. "Why bring this up? I've been hearing people mention it a lot these past few days, but this kind of app should be quite niche, so why is it so popular?"

Ze Ge had a look on his face as if he were asking the class representative to summarize. Lu Mingyuan frowned slightly; he had also heard about this.

In the internship group, none of them had ever heard of this software, because strictly speaking, they were still laymen and amateurs.

If you know something about it, then you're not an amateur.

In fact, people in the industry have generally heard about this, and many have already gone to witness the "miracle".

With that screenshot in hand, Shen Qianyu might actually be able to find an internship at a major company.

"Because this software is incredibly effective, achieving what even invasive brain-computer interfaces haven't been able to do so far, and no one has been able to understand its core code, nor have any of them been able to modify a single character." Gao Yuxiang asked Ze Ge, "Does it look familiar?"

Ze Ge: "???!!!"

This looks so familiar!

"What do you mean?" Lu Mingyuan asked.

"It was written by Pingzi," Gao Yuxiang said.

"Our Pingzi?" Lu Mingyuan was dumbfounded.

“Our Pingzi,” Gao Yuxiang said, “of course, we don’t know how many more days it will belong to us…”

Ze Ge glared at him again for making such sarcastic remarks.

"There are already dozens of derivative projects based on the Pingzi project, and the top few have already exceeded a thousand stars in just a few days, which shows its popularity. The project is more popular abroad than in China, and there is related demand all over the world, with various localizations emerging. However, so far, there is no mature commercial version of this project."

Yes, open-source projects can be commercially funded.

The requirement of open source projects has always been "open source," not "free."

The open-source license chosen by Tang Yiping requires that any project developed using his code must be open-sourced, which is a kind of mandatory infectious open-source license.

This ensures that the technology is open and transparent, and will never be monopolized by anyone.

However, it does not restrict capable companies from developing commercial versions to make money.

However, the commercial version should also be open source.

Those with technical skills can directly pull and compile the code to run themselves, while those without technical skills, or those who want stable service, should choose reliable commercial services.

Most people in the world don't have this technology, so it doesn't actually affect the paid ecosystem.

“I’m thinking… should we do a commercial version of this project?” Gao Yuxiang paused. “After all, we have advantages, don’t we?”

Yes, it has a huge advantage.

The original author is here.

“I did some research, and every year there are 6000 million people worldwide who suffer from brain injuries of varying degrees, of whom at least 15% are left with permanent sequelae, which means 900 million new customers every year… This is a project with a truly huge market, and it is currently still a blue ocean.”

"With this product, Aban's product acumen, Ze's technology, and a round of funding..." Lu Mingyuan became excited.

"Unfortunately, you don't have any of those. You only have Pingzi." Gao Yuxiang was glared at by Li Ze again.

"We need to discuss this with Pingzi," Ze Ge said.

In fact, they didn't need to discuss it with Tang Yiping, because open source means giving up ownership.

But the other two nodded.

We need to discuss this.

"Is our Hirako off work?"

Just as Ze was about to speak, the elevator door number 9 behind them opened again.

Tang Yiping carried a bag of egg tarts out of the elevator.

(End of this chapter)