Friday 25 February, 2005

Pirates of The Silicon Valley

Yesterday I saw this good movie named "The Pirates of the Silicon Valley". Excellent movie, I must say, for Computer Enthusiasts. The movie is centred around the life of 'Steve Jobs', founder of Apple, a very intelligent, energetic young man who dreamt of changing the world of Desktop Computing and succeeded to a great extent. I am not sure if all the incidents shown in the movie are true or not but it throws some light on the Microsoft Vs. Apple battle. 'Steve Jobs' always believed that his people at Apple were all great artists and was realy in a position to give ibm people a run for their money before a genius called 'Bill Gates' cheated and stole the show. 'Steve' always said, "Good artists copy but great artists steal". Bill and Steve were both not very rich n famous when the Xerox Company had developed world's first so called GUI with mouse. Though Xerox did not see any future for the technology, both these guys were very much overwhelmed by it. Steve Jobs at Apple developed worlds first successful and commercially deployable GUI n mouse in Macintosh but Bill Gates at Microsoft who was supposed to be working for Apple stole their technology and used it for himself instead. A pirate stealing pirated stuff from other pirate. When a slightly overconfident 'Steve' came to know about this, he told to himself and 'Bill' that he still had the best package and even though 'Bill' had stolen the things from Apple, Macintosh still had better things to offer. The Great Bill Gates then said, "You don't understand this Steve, it dosn't realy matter now." Great lines from great man that changed the world's history. Who knows otherwise, I would be using an Apple i-Mac instead of Windows today for writing my blog. A great movie.....Really!!!