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1. List as many reasons as you can to explain why the movie is named Pirates of the Silicon Valley (use examples). Remember that the Silicon Valley is an area in California where most technology companies have their main headquarters

It is called pirates of the Silicon Valley because the story tells us about the apple company and the microsoft company. First of all i will say it is call like this because Steve Jobs the creator of apple had a flag with a pirate at the top of its offices which were located in SIlicon Valley, he consider his company the only and the best company whic produced computers on that time, he was totally stricit with his workers even with his best friend. The idea of the flag was to let people know that they dont stole ideas they create new ones.This was because apple started developing new technologies that were never seen before and they started becoming very famous, so Bill GAtes who was dedicated to design programmes got interest on apple, he thought it could be good business to work with them and sell them his programmes. Steve jobs believed him, and bill gates started performing new ideas with the apple ones. Besides apple had a pirate flag in his company. these are some of the examples of how microsoft stole information from apple. -Microsoft stole the idea of Apple in order to develop similar computers with same technology. --They stole ideas from each other because of course the system shouldn't change, they never understood that. -The woman who created the mouse tried to sell it to IBM but they thought it was useful for any computer so they rejected her. So apple stole that idea and started developing it even more, but then Microsoft realized that in fact the mouse was very useful and stole the mouse from apple. -Bill Gates used his abilities to persuade Steve Jobs that he should work with him, that they were going to work together. So steve Jobs gave him 3 prototypes of the newest computer Apple was working with (macintosh) and Microsoft produced a similar computer. They stole the idea. -As Bill gates and Steve Jobs were deveoping their new technologies and personal computers. They had different ways to work and Bill Gates realized that he wasnt as efficient as Steve Jobs. So in stead of trying to create his own computer all he did was steal things from other companies that hadn´t succeed. He was a very good speaker and had the ability of convincing people to do what he wanted. In fact the movie is about competition besides the creation of new technology. It describe the lives of two "pirates" who tried to be the best, working so hard for years. and actually they are, because the two of them are the richest men of the world.