Original title: Mourning the founder of Dream Weaving, Mr. Lin Xue, who opened the door for the open source system of the website!
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On December 4, there was a sudden news that the popular content management system (CMS) DEDEBIZ website published an obituary. Mr. Lin Xue (IT Plato), the founder of DedeCMS, died of cancer on the afternoon of December 3, 2022 at the age of 43.
Mr. Lin Xue's Life and DedeCMS
Mr. Lin Xue was born on October 10, 1979 and graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering of Guangdong Maoming University in 2022. Compared with his real name, his online name "IT Plato" and his self-developed content management program DedeCMS in August 2004 are more well-known.
At the same time, he is also a senior blogger of CSDN, ddboy（ //blog.csdn.net/ddboy ）, joined CSDN in 2002, and has a code age of 20 years.
At that time, Lin Xue said, "When he was interviewed by a CSDN reporter in 2007, he started his career in IT programming from the chemical industry When I was in school, I learned PHP or other things related to web design. Before graduation, I worked in a small network company in Zhongshan. At first, I used ASP to develop websites, and then I used PHP. This also led me to develop things in my own way 」。
Two years after graduation DedeCMS based on PHP+MySQL（ Chinese name: dream weaving content management system ） The first version was also unintentional "It's just for the sake of providing it to friends who are doing SEO, and I never thought that it would develop to today step by step", Lin Xue said during the interview.
In 2007, when talking about the vision of DedeCMS, a content management system popular with webmasters for its excellent performance and functions, Lin Xue firmly said, " Let the world see China's open source CMS 」。
View CMS from the spirit of sharing
At that time, when open source did not become the mainstream culture and way of the IT industry, Mr. Lin Xue vigorously promoted the development of open source DedeCMS, which benefited many websites, DedeCMS has gradually become a solution for the construction of small and medium-sized portals.
As a contributor and promoter of open source, Mr. Lin Xue insists on the spirit of sharing, as his life motto goes, "Action is more than words, and action is more than words
"In the past, when only DedeCms was open source and others were not open source, some malicious comments were attacking Dede yes Fake open source, but when everyone is open source, this idea no longer exists. We are talking about the openness of the system, not about the GPL protocol, because these CMSs do not comply with the GPL protocol, and all have Chinese characteristics plus the description of "free for non-commercial purposes". Of course, there are quite a lot of Chinese people who use "piracy". Therefore, discussing GPL and pseudo open source is nonsense. If we want to discuss it, we should discuss resource sharing.
DedeCms has the following characteristics:
1. Label openness
The label of DedeCms is originally open (except for the loop and sql labels directly related to SQL operations, but actually they are a little "professional"). The opening mentioned here is standard and unified, and it does not need too much modification when sharing the module to others;
2. Template openness
The templates of DedeCms are basically stored in the form of files, which is very conducive to sharing. There is no denying that DedeCms has the largest number of templates to share, which can be reflected in the template style area of their forum.
3. Document sharing
After DedeCmsV5.3, a document center website has been set up, namely //help.dedecms.com This is the first document center of this nature in domestic CMS.
4. Plug ins are shared with others
With the development of time, users have become familiar with DedeCms. Shortly after V5.3 was released, many users know how to develop relevant modules and small plug-ins. In addition, the new version not only modularizes plug-ins, but also shares tags, content models, collection models, etc. Only in DedeCms forums can "who gives me a XXX rule" and other "selling voices" appear.
From the above points, DedeCms has initially possessed various characteristics of the spirit of open source sharing. Of course, it is impossible to comply with the GPL. After all, there is no open source fund in China to support the development of a thing like that in foreign countries, so if we need to survive, we will definitely charge for commercial applications. "
Mourning Mr. Lin Xue
It is necessary to survive, so there is also a need for commercial existence. However, in the view of many users who used free software, open source and commercialization at that time were contradictory opposites, which also caused Mr. Lin Xue to have various helplessness between survival and open source.
The difficulty was also revealed to the outside world when DeDeCMS developed from a personal maintenance project to a company at the end of 2007, and in 2009, two years later, Mr. Lin Xue had no choice but to leave the company:
Finally, no matter whether the subsequent DedeCMS charges or not, there is no doubt that Mr. Lin Xue's initial wish to promote DedeCMS and let the world see China's open source CMS continues to affect the current IT industry. According to the announcement on the website of DEDEBIZ, "DedeCMS is still used by hundreds of thousands of enterprises and individual webmasters, and there are inevitably some Internet giants among users, of which bilibili is based on DedeCMS from scratch".
But some regret is that, "Mr. Lin Xue has always adhered to the concept of open source and free, and has changed China through technology, but has never lived a decent life because of DedeCMS", DEDEBIZ said, "Here we remember Mr. Lin Xue's contribution to open source in China, and his will will be passed on to create more value for the society. “
Many netizens left messages of condolences under the microblog of "Plato":
Many former DedeCMS users also thanked Mr. Lin Xue for his contributions to the industry:
At the end of his life, Mr. Lin Xue has also been fighting against the disease.
I deeply mourn Mr. Lin Xue and have a good journey.
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