Simply...: Pirates of Silicon Valley: OS Class

Nassef Badrudin

pirates of the silicon valley

In the movie, I was really confused of what Bill Gates and his friends were doing with the papers or what you called punch card, but when they put it on a machine my confusion was cleared and now I know that it was used for programming. I was also amazed on how Bill Gates convinced the IBM people of the operating system that they dos which they doesn’t have that time. But their problem was solved when the Seattle Computer company sold their software amounting of $50,000 but they don’t know that it has earned more than that.

I was also amazed on the skills of Steve Jobs and his partner Steve Wozniak, when I saw them making computer I thought that they’re just playing around. But I was disappointed on Jobs when he entered the business and established the apple because his behavior was changed, even his girl friend told him that they will going to have a baby, he don’t want to recognize as his own. And when Bill Gates entered apple for certain purpose which was to steal the concept of mac os. Jobs got angry of Gates but for me he doesn’t have the right to be angry because they are both pirates, they stole the works of other just to make money or to be famous but the real genius were the Seattle computer company and the Xerox. The lesson that I have learned in that story is that there are many ways to make money specially when you have the ability to manipulate person’s mind or for short you have a great communication skills. You don’t have to be a genius or something to make, because sometimes experience is better than knowledge.