Dan Ellis
Wednesday 4-10 Emac
9/6/06

Emac movie response

I thought Pirates of Silicon Valley was an interesting depiction of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates' careers and the history of their companys. Microsoft and Apple are the two biggest computer software companys in the world, and this movie did a good job of portraying their intertwining stories. I thought the movie was shot fairly well and, for a docu-drama, wasn't unberably over-dramtic. The acting was pretty good, the story flowed well, and overall i couldn't say that i wasn't interested throught the film.

Though i knew that windows wasn't Bill Gates' idea, I hounestly had no idea that Microsoft stole Apple's ideas stolen from Xerox. I think it's fairly ironic that all of these fantastic, world changing computer programs were not developed by their initial companies. I used to have an old Macintosh that i used frequently, and though i noticed the simularity between it's OS and Window's, i never made the corelation between the two. Overall, Pirates of Silicon Valley was an enjoyable educational expirience for me. That, and there were three (!) Moody Blues songs on the soundtrack.