drop your pants, timmy… drop… your… pants (LOL)

See how much fun it its to watch as movie called Pirates of Silicon Valley through a pirated CD. It makes it all the more relevant…

I yet have to research if this has been Microsoft’s propaganda against the eevulll weevulll Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. Not that the man hasn’t given any contribution to the computer world, he has actually paved the way to making computers available to mankind.. but he looks like one of the meanest, greediest humanoids ever (in the past). His gratifications included watching his programmers work 90 hours a week (talk about 18 hours a day for a 5-day work week… that’s 6 hours of sleep daily… and no time to shower! eek!) and shouting at people. Yes, he was a good businessman, because he was able to show IBM Corp. (then, the eminent computer mogul) that computers may be manufactured for ordinary people’s use. IBM had scorned at that, thinking the common populace wouldn’t find interest in procuring computing machines..*sigh* Hadn’t this been stressed by Steve J (and even more Steve Wozniak, his partner), I would probably be blogging on a piece of flint now. And, hell, blogging wouldn’t be invented in the first place! Lol.

Point is, the movie showed how the rivalry between Steve Jobs of Apple and Bill Gates of MicroSoft came up. Oh, typical story.. There’s this BiG monster (let’s just name it IBM.. heehar) a duo of college geeks (Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak — who invented little machines that actually had graphical user interfaces, not typical calculator-looking machines) wanted to sell their machines to, but got repudiated at. The two decide to come up with a company, Apple Computer Inc. which brought them prestige.

One time, at band camp, ehem.. One time at a Computer Faire (location unregistered in mah medulla oblongata), Apple Inc. was showcasing its spanky machine for the public’s view. On the far end of the row across their booth was Bill Gates and his teeny weeny company called Microsoft. But in that Faire (dunno why it was called Faire in the first place, sounds so gay noh?), the media and everyone else who entered focused on Apple’s booth; leaving the rest of the computer booths looking war torn. Monsieur Gates had so wanted to discuss things (business partnership?) with Monsieur Jobs that time, yet the latter was too busy exhibiting his tool that time. (Tool = Machine. What were you thinking?)

To cut the story short, Monsieur Billy Bob Gates, aw, Bill Gates proposal for partnership was rejected by Steve Jobs. Bill created Gates for Jobs in the US. Bwahahah. Uhm, Bill saw that rejection as a point of revenge.. And isn’t it oh so good to watch an enemy crumble to pieces? Bill further enhanced his machines, tried to copy features from Xerox’s GUI-enabled machines. (Well that’s what Xerox is for, ayt? To produce copies? Hehe.) Not knowing Steve was also trying to work on copying Xerox’s GUI features on the other side of the fence.

Gates tried, once again, to propose a partnership with Jobs. And yeah, the latter finally agreed. But never did poor old Stevey sense that it was Billy’s way of joining the enemy (so it could weaken it). The old adage "if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em" might be a good theme for that part of their story.. but let me add.. "if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.. AND THEN KILL ‘EM ALL" Bwahahaha!

Bill then partnered with Steve, supplying enhancements to Macintosh’s features. But then, there’s always a twist to everything.. Bill had enhanced his operating systems with the features from Steve’s machines/systems. Steve found out about this and raged at Bill for stealing ideas from him; however, Bill retained his composure…

And to cut the story shorter, the reason why Bill was never aghast at being accused for "stealing" Steve Jobs’ ideas was that he stood firm to the idea that both of them had actually pirated ideas from Xerox, only that he actually came up with developing the stolen technology first. Steve was able to do nothing but display the emotions that of King Kong’s.

I know I didn’t want this to look like a movie critique of some sort.. Just wanted to chronicle on the movie I now find out where my trainor at my previous company took ideas from. So this is where you got your saying "Good artists create, GREAT ARTISTS STEAL*", Will, huh? Lol.

In a battle between two evils, the lesser evil will always win.

In the end, Steve Jobs got fired by the man he hired to be president of his lair — John Culley, ex-Pepsi CEO — the one he said "Would you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life?" to. Oh isn’t revenge sweet? Well, after getting fired, Steve used the money he got to build the digital animation empire we now know as Pixar Studios. Steve Jobs wasn’t that bad, after all. Probably, he just needs a few behavioral twists to become a perfect businessman/computerworld genius. But then again, we all have our own imperfections in one way or another.

A spine-tingling saying to add to my list of pirated sayings I got from the movie is:

"Maybe you talk about past lives and all that stuff coz, well, you don’t know who you are"

Check, check.. Reality check.

*uttered many a few times by “Bill Gates” in the movie. According to him, this was van Gogh’s saying.

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