Microsoft or Apple, who stole first?

This was the best scene in TNT's Pirates of Silicon Valley. It was the moment of truth when Bill Gates confronted Steve Jobs.

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[noahrobd2]

Most tech companies agree that Microsoft does not play fair. They trick other companies. They back stab. They exploit legal loop holes. They've stolen from many companies, not just Apple. They steal from small companies that cannot match Microsoft's same legal resources, and therefore do not have a leg to stand on to defend themselves. (I'm not talking about when it was Apple vs Microsoft.) MS is big enough to do wrong and get away with it because of their lawyers.

[kahuna3901]

@noahrobd2 yes, its the same with almost every big company. infact apple included. especially in the 80's when apple stole from xerox and passed the interfaces off as their own. yea microsoft steals but they certainly are not the only one so dont be bitter about this apple fanboy

[kinofreakmaniak]

@kahuna3901 watch this: watch?v=ferle2Uovks

IDIOT !

[IMaDEM0N]

@IMaDEM0N BUT the Xerox PARC Facility developed the GUI under US Government Grant money & they produced "the Alto", they presented it to the Presidents, Heads of Sales, Production Manages & Financial Brass (the true HEADS of Xerox) & ALL OF THEM JUST HATED IT (which is why you still, to this day see like 8x8 keyboards kind of like what's on a touch-tone telephone & put info into a little LCD Screen & some Touch-Screen stuff over the years) & THAT'S ALL SAYING NOTHING ABOUT Tandy/Radio Shack....

[IMaDEM0N]

@MrMusicalee WHO TOLD U THAT?!? 1st of all, it wasn't just Microsoft vs. Apple as a "Clash of the Titans" there were also Digital Research Inc. (led by Gary Kildall). & Kildall was the developer of the 1st Operating Sys. to interest IBM; it wasn't like in "Pirates of Silicone Valley" where Bill Gates & Paul Allen approached IBM outta the blue & sold them on DOS before he even got it & after Kildall blew-off his meeting w/ IBM to fly is Piper Cub, a Frustrated IBM, approached Bill Gates...

[MrMusicalee]

Anyone who knows their tech history knows that Apple and Microsoft worked together in the mid 70's... And Microsoft did the first PC coding for apple... but who invented that coding??? That's right people. Apple did!!!

[FFWDEntertainment]

@noahrobd2 well what else would you expect to happen when a engineer with no creativity becomes the worlds most powerfull ceo , hes use to taking orders and accomplishing them ....when engineers have no one to boss them around they have no idea what to do with themselfs , so they copy.

[FFWDEntertainment]

I heard about the uncle xerox line in steve jobs biography and though it was the best line in the whole book, they fucked it up in this movie .....that line should of been epic and gates should of been calm and collected.

[TaylorsTooTech]

@cforcalvin We're talking about the GUI not DOS. It was Xerox idea developed at PARC. Jobs and Co. went back to HQ and developed the ideas with Xerox's permission.

[devantarsey]

i would strangle that skinny bill gates lookin bastard

[DeathBear27]

Apple is the 2nd biggest company. Apple has about 80 billion dollars laying around doing nothing. Apple makes more money than MS every quarter. Yeah, apple won.

[Huesos138]

I like Windows, Mac, and Linux, but for slightly different reasons. These companies are not churches people. There's no point in being assholes about your individual preferences.