Brief introduction of tomato garden
"Tomato Garden" is the most famous installed CD brand in China. Its product installation is simple, the interface is gorgeous and the tools are complete. In particular, the GHOST version can install the popular operating system in a few minutes, which is very popular among users.
In order to beautify the tomato garden, Hong Lei, who has many screen names, made a modified version of the Windows XP operating system with another technology enthusiast named "Big Tomato", and they also operated and maintained a software download website called "Tomato Garden".
In late August 2008, a piece of news occupied the headlines of IT channels of major websites. The author of the tomato garden version of windows xp was detained on suspicion of infringing Microsoft's intellectual property rights. Because of the great influence of the name tomato garden, this news has been widely concerned.
Tomato Garden is a software download website, which was established in 2003 and has been shut down. Prior to this, an important function of Tomato Garden website was to provide users with some kind of computer operating system software to download, and this computer operating system version was the version formed by the modification of Microsoft's windows xp system by Hong Lei, the stationmaster of Tomato Garden, and his team. It was renamed the tomato garden version. This version cancels Microsoft's genuine verification program, closes or uninstalls some uncommon functions in Microsoft's original operating system, and speeds up the operation of the platform. Because the tomato garden xp system has these advantages and can be downloaded and used for free, it has been favored by many netizens. In recent years, the tomato garden xp system has spread widely. According to an incomplete survey, about 19% netizens are using the tomato garden version of windows xp system. Some experts estimate there are tens of millions of users.
Although Tomato Garden is favored by some people, it is an unchangeable fact that the xp operating system of Tomato Garden infringes on Microsoft's intellectual property rights and is pirated software. In June 2008, Microsoft complained to the National Copyright Administration and the Ministry of Public Security. On August 5, 2008, Hong Lei, the stationmaster of Tomato Garden, was detained and examined by Suzhou police. According to professional analysis, Hong Lei is likely to be sentenced to three to seven years in prison.
Hu Gang, an intellectual property lawyer: Crimes against intellectual property rights, such as copyright infringement, generally require several points. First, the subject must be intentional, and the income obtained through advertising and other means is for profit. Second, there must be a large amount of illegal income or other circumstances. The most important core is these two points, which may constitute the crime of copyright infringement.
Recently, the National Copyright Administration told the media that whether or not Hong Lei, the stationmaster of Tomato Garden, profited from pirated software, his act of modifying Microsoft's operating system itself constituted an infringement, and this infringement is undoubtedly to be resolutely cracked down. The attitude of the National Copyright Administration towards piracy has always been firm and clear.
On August 15, 2008, after the police detained Hong Lei, more than 2 million yuan was found in his personal account, and Hong Lei himself admitted that he had made profits from pirated xp software.
On September 8, 2008, 18 was arrested by Suzhou People's Procuratorate.
On August 20, 2009, the People's Court of huqiu district, Suzhou today made a first-instance judgment on the case of copyright infringement by the principal in the tomato garden case. Tencent Technology learned that the defendant Chengdu * * Soft Network Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Chengdu * * Soft") and four related defendants Sun, Hong Lei and Liang Zhuoyong were investigated for criminal responsibility for copying and distributing computer software without the permission of the copyright owner.
Among them, Hong Lei, the person in charge of Tomato Garden website, was sentenced to three years and six months in prison and fined 6,543,800 yuan; Sun, the principal offender who planned and manipulated the commercial operation of tomato garden, was sentenced to three years and six months in prison and fined 6,543,800 yuan. Zhang Tianping, director of Chengdu Soft Market, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and fined 654.38 million yuan. Liang Zhuoyong, the defendant who participated in the development and production of pirated software in Tomato Garden, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and fined 65,438+10,000 yuan. Chengdu, the defendant, was fined 8.77 million yuan and his illegal income was confiscated 2.92 million yuan.
The meaning of tomato
Everything has its own meaning, and tomatoes are no exception. We knew its meaning a long time ago, and we had a special feeling at that time, so we had the "tomato garden".
When everyone comes into contact with a new thing for the first time, they always look at its appearance first, and then gradually understand and know its interior. Then there will be three situations: first, you decide that it is not good at first sight, and how capable is a thing with a bad appearance to do well internally? Therefore, many things miss success while emphasizing practicality and ignoring beauty, which has to be regretted. In a word, the first impression is very important. As the saying goes, a good beginning is half the battle. Second, paying too much attention to appearance and ignoring content can only be a "premature death". When everyone recognizes your appearance, your ability will be tested. Conclusion: If the outside is red flowers, the inside is green leaves. Without the function of leaves, plants will only die, and even beautiful flowers will wither. Third, in view of the first two situations, if it is as good as appearance, it will naturally be loved and supported by people. Conclusion: If you want to make a product that can be easily accepted by the majority of users and will always be loved and supported, you must be "consistent in appearance, perfect and intriguing". It is said that you can't have both, but that doesn't mean we can forgive ourselves for not trying to have both. As long as we really want to serve all users, even if it is 99% impossible, we will do our best with 200% actions. This is the spirit of tomatoes.
It is obvious to all that tomatoes have a beautiful and bright appearance, but have you noticed the fact that the outside and inside of tomatoes are always the same color? Red tomatoes are red outside and red inside, and green tomatoes are blue outside and blue inside. If you use four words to describe tomatoes, it is very simple, that is, "what do you look like." However, under the beautiful and bright appearance of tomatoes, there are also rich nutrients, which makes people love tomatoes even more, even without them.
The meaning of tomatoes reminds us of the truth of being human. "Be what you are" is also the concept of tomato garden, which represents a sincere heart. We also hope that every friend who has seen the meaning of tomato can like the color of tomato and be what kind of person he looks like.
Tomato Garden Statement
All the resources and software provided by Tomato Garden are online collections or private exchanges.
It is forbidden to use tomato garden resources for any commercial profit purpose, otherwise all consequences will be borne by you!
Tomato Garden only provides an observation and learning environment and will not bear legal responsibility for any resources!
Please delete all the resources of Tomato Garden within 24 hours after downloading. If you are satisfied, please buy genuine products!
Tomato Garden severely condemns and despises all piracy that makes use of the resources of this site for profit!
Website name: Tomato Garden
Date of establishment: 2003- 12
Website nature: numerous personal websites.
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Tomato Forum Address:
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Tomato House provides the installed CD and the necessary software, which is very beneficial to your installation and operation!
Tomato garden edition
Hong Lei has been detained by the police for review, the website has been shut down, the server and Hong Lei's notebook have been taken away by the police, and Chengdu Guo Hong Technology Co., Ltd., which provided technical development support for Hong Lei, has also been closed down. Piracy in China will definitely be stopped. It's just a matter of process. I'm sorry
Yes, as long as you profit from it, you must be sealed up. Now intellectual property rights have been taken seriously.
On August 20, 2008, on August 2 1 day, Sina Technology obtained a recording of a chat between Hong Lei, the author of Windows XP Tomato Garden Edition, and a friend two years ago. In it, Hong Lei talked about the development of tomato garden, analyzed in detail the profit model that tomato garden earned 65,438+10,000 yuan a month by bundling rogue software, and revealed many inside stories about modifying XP operating system industry.
The arrest of Hong Lei, which was exclusively disclosed by Sina Technology on the 20th, caused an uproar in the software industry, PC industry, Internet and other fields. On the afternoon of 20th, Zheng, a friend of Hong Lei, provided Sina Technology with an exclusive recording of his chat with Hong Lei. This recording was recorded in September 2006 and lasted for 27 minutes. Zheng said that this recording was originally used for his communication and study in the first World Wide Web (Beijing Shenzhou Network Technology Company). Now that Hong Lei is in trouble, he is willing to exclusively authorize Sina Technology to make it public.
According to the laws of our country, if you don't profit from it, it's hard to convict someone who modifies other people's software without permission. Tomato Garden also stated in the copyright statement of its website that it does not provide any CDs for sale, and users can download them for free. Some users complained for Hong Lei, thinking that Tomato Garden was just a "scapegoat" for pirates, and he didn't profit from it. Users who have used Tomato Garden have found that his operating system is bundled with Yi Bei plug-ins and Yahoo assistants, but whether he benefits from it is still inconclusive.
In this recording exclusively learned by Sina Technology, Hong Lei revealed that he earned more than 65,438+10,000 yuan every month. He knew in his heart that "let Microsoft know that you are using this to make money, and he will definitely find you".
Hong Lei said in the recording materials that there were three profit models for Tomato Garden in 2006: one was to click on the advertisement on the website of Tomato Garden; Second, Hong Lei provides software downloads including XP beautification packages through his own website. These softwares are bundled with rogue software, and Hong Lei earns 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a month; Third, through the rogue software pre-installed in the Tomato Garden version, it brings traffic or registered users to advertisers, and the monthly income exceeds 654.38+10,000 yuan.
It is worth noting that this recording took place in September 2006, and it has been nearly two years. For the Internet industry, two years is a big enough change, such as the crackdown and cleanup of rogue software that broke out later. So what these two people said does not represent the present situation of tomato garden. For example, his income may not be 654.38+ million per month, and it may skyrocket or plummet.
The following is rewritten in the first person way according to Hong Lei's chat recording. The order of topics has been adjusted, but they are all faithful to the original intention of Hong Lei's chat, and the title was added by the editor.
Growth process of tomato garden
There were few visits to the website of Tomato Garden and before downloading. I hung on you (referring to Zheng's first World Wide Web) and used a virtual host. At first, my bandwidth was 2M (megabytes), but later it increased to 5M. If the bandwidth is not limited and the download is completely released, I estimate that 20M bandwidth is needed, and if it is limited, it will be 10 megabytes. My software (referring to the tomato garden version of Win XP) will be downloaded soon.
I calculated at that time, you put it there, and there are 30 thousand to 50 thousand independent IPS every month. At that time, I only earned income by advertising on the website, which was rare and the server could not afford it. Later, after I cooperated with Yi Bei and Yahoo, my income increased rapidly. This year (2006) 1 February, the monthly income was just over 20,000, and I saved 65,438+10,000, so I bought it. After I changed the server myself, I found that it reached 70 thousand independent IPS after half a month.
Soon, the daily independent IP reached 6.5438+0.5 million, with 6,000 online users. Later, the independent IP reached 250 thousand, and the CPU of the server often had more than 90% load, which the CPU could not stand. I will now separate the forum server from the download server. I rented a server to put the forum program in Suzhou and bought a server to download it in Chengdu.
Suzhou's 100-megabit independent bandwidth is 1800 per month, and the entrance fee is 3000,2400 per month, which is not expensive. I bought my own server from Hewlett-Packard. I remember that the quotation on HP's website was 2 1999. Later, I bought it for 20600. Intel Xeon dual-channel processor and 2GB memory. At present, the maximum number of online users is 13000, and the processor share is 45%, which is enough. The maximum bandwidth is 50M, and it is generally 35M during the day. The independent IP of the forum is 30 thousand per day, and now my total independent IP is 400 thousand per day, and the forum is only one tenth of the download.
The boss of the website navigation station 999 1.com came to me from Shanghai last year (Hong Lei is in Suzhou, Jiangsu), and they offered to buy all or part of my website and software. They mainly want my main business (referring to the tomato garden version of Win XP), and my website is still in my charge. They want to turn tomatolei.com into a website navigation station and promise to help me promote it. My independent IP is now 400,000, and they say they are confident and capable of reaching 654.38+00,000 or even more, several times, but my website can't set foot in other content. They are willing to pay me 40 thousand a month for 24 months, and then I own 30% of the whole company, and they want 70%. I didn't promise. They came to me later, and 40,000 directly turned into 80,000, that is, they gave me 80,000 every month, and other conditions remained unchanged. I still haven't thought about it. Even if I can earn 500 thousand a month in the third year, my website is not completely under my control. This is not what I want.
Now I earn more than 100 thousand a month, mainly in my main business (that is, tomato garden version XP), and XP beautification package is 20 thousand to 30 thousand a month. The revenue from clicking advertisements on websites is very small.