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Thanks for the tip re: Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999). Enjoyed it. Needs a sequel though, as it ends with  Windows vanquishing Apple.

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We might get more with the Steve Jobs biopic, but from what I've heard they're basically just re-making PoSV.  I could be (and hope I am) wrong.  PoSV does an admirable job of telling the story of the rise of Apple and Microsoft, and I can see the biopic sort of taking over from there.  On the other hand, PoSV is trying to tell that story from several angles, Steve Jobs being just one of the players involved.

At any rate I agree, the ending is a bit off.  You can find footage of that very conference on YouTube, and it doesn't come across nearly as menacing as the film makes it out to be.

And just look at where Apple is now.  Yeah, I think they've done alright since then.

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I've never seen Pirates of Silicon Valley, but in any Jobs movie worth a damn that story would only serve as the first act.

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It's also fascinating how Pirates of Silicon Valley started with Steve Jobs being a drugged out hippy while Bill Gates was a ruthless unscrupulous businessman/nerd, and yet it turned out that Gates (through his philanthropy in Africa) actually walked the talk, whereas Steve Jobs' desire to 'give something back' was never apparent right up to the very end.

PoSV paints Jobs like a unstable Californian religious guru. If not Apple, then an Evangelical mega-church.

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So after Social Network and the Steven Jobs biopic, we'll get the Larry Page and Sergey Brin buddy movie.

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I think a movie about the rise and fall of Commodor would be great. They went from being THE computer company in the mid to late 80's to being completely broke and out of business by the mid 90's. The people running that company at the end either botched it because they were complete morons or (and this is the popular opinion, I think) the guy running it decided he could make more money by driving it into the ground than keeping it successful.

There's a home video out there on the web (edited on an amiga, I think...  hehe) where one of the engineers recorded the last day of work, the party afterward and a get-together at one of their houses a week or so later. Intercut with the home video are title cards explaining some of the key moments of the rise and fall of the company. Toward the end of the video a lot of them are drunk and they start doing some pretty crazy shit. Then they burn an effigy of the owner.

It's like The Wicker Man for computer nerds.

Here's a trailer for it. The full movie was on Google video, but I think google has scrubbed most of the content from that older service.

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