Reaction Paper about Pirates of Silicon Valley:

The Pirates of Silicon Valley is about the rivalry between Steve Jobs, the one who introduced the Apple Computers, and Bill Gates of Microsoft. Its all about the historical development of two large computer companies, from the time when Bill Gates and Steve Jobs’ college days to 1985, in moving pictures using old cinematography. The story began at Harvard, Bill and Paul Allen just love to play Poker with their friend Steve Ballmer. Until one day, they saw this ad on Popular Electronics Magazine about the smallest computer, the Altair 8080. They went to deal with the maker that they will make an operating system for it. On Berkeley, Steve Jobs and Wozniak are busy making the computer that will change the world. It was a crazy idea, but they were successful until finally, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates met each other. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs performed many unethical actions during the beginnings of Microsoft and Apple. It emphasized the negative qualities of the two gentlemen that are now having big names worldwide.

 

Bill Gates the owner of Microsoft. In the movie, He is a great businessman with no other goal but to compete on other companies and win that competition. Bill Gates also tried to put everyone down who are in the same business even though Microsoft at first was an underdog. But still, he survived and also made Microsoft as a threatening counterpart to Apple. He made an offer to IBM with no assurance on his hand. IBM reasoned that hardware not software is where the money is at, so they agree. And he take his own risk in making a deal on Steve Jobs that he will work for Apple Inc as a developer. 

Steve Jobs the CEO of an Apple company. He is a very smart inventor. He have ideas which are ahead of his competitors. He did not stop in his invention even he always fail because he thought that one day his invention will be known to the company and the people in the whole world. He is the man that has only one side decision. He is opportunistic and very tricky, he tricked the engineers from Xerox to sell the patent and copyright of the mouse to him which was discarded by the company and was treated as a waste of their resources. But even though he is a very smart inventor, he failed and kicked out of his own company because of his pride and attitude. He became arrogant and his ideas became twisted for his colleagues to understand. He divided his company, Apple into two camps. One the old Apple computer camp, and the other the new Macintosh development camp. He made his two company compete with each other. After seeing this effect on the company, Steve Jobs is forced to leave his position at Apple. Years later, Steve Jobs back in command of Apple who now has partnered with Microsoft and Bill Gates. The good things happened that Steve Jobs realized that Bill Gates developed Windows using the software that Apple had programmed for their computers. 

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My reaction of this movie was at first I don't understand what the the movie is all about, so what I did was, I repeat watching on it tries, then after that I got what Pirates of Silicon Valley means. I realized that being a genius in the field we have is not enough. Sometimes we need to do bad things for us to succeed in life. And we should not be arrogant in whatever accomplishments we have because we never know what the future will holds, sometimes those we do not considered before might be the one who will succeed more. And In my own opinion why the movie called Pirates of Silicon Valley its because it is about piracy in the computer world and Silicon Valley is a place in California where computers are built and Apple also was born. And called Pirates because Microsoft was raised stealing ideas from others.