joshnii 2 Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 Last Friday I watched a tv movie called Pirates of Silicon Valley. It's about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, and the beginning of Apple and Microsoft. I found it really interesting, not sure exactly how much it goes off the "real story" if at all. It was an interesting watch though, never heard about it until a buddy gave me a vid. More info on it here http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/ Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 I saw that last year found it really interesting. Does it all true?? Like Bill offering to provide IBM with something called "DOS" without actually having a product at the time, then they went off to some guy and bought his OS from him for 50000? Interesting. Link to post Share on other sites
merryJim 1 Posted November 1, 2004 Share Posted November 1, 2004 That was interesting I never knew any of that "early" story. It's been on one of the satellite channels here recently too. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted November 1, 2004 Share Posted November 1, 2004 Gates : How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America by Stephen Manes, Paul Andrews is a good read about Gates never having done anything original except for spotting the potential of computers. It details how he stole the Mac interface and screwed over Apple. It also looks at what a horrible specimen Steve Balmer is. This makes it sound a scurrilous read, but actually it isn't at all. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted November 1, 2004 Share Posted November 1, 2004 I'm going to have to take a read of that. Interested to know how it all started, wouldn't mind seeing this flick to. Just took a look for it, looks like it was a tv movie. Link to post Share on other sites
JellyBelly 1 Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 I saw this last night, it was a really interesting tv movie. I never knew that story either I'll have to check out that book as well. Link to post Share on other sites
yamayamayama 2 Posted November 26, 2004 Share Posted November 26, 2004 Just dug up this thread >> saw the movie last night and really enjoyed it, I thought it was really good and I didn't know that back story to Gates and Jobs either. Link to post Share on other sites
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