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http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...arch&plindex=1

So according to this video Apple and Microsoft basicly got their start from stealing and Xerox was sitting on a trillion dollar concept and didn't even realize it.

Ive always said, and this movie backs it up...

The richest people in the world are thieves...

right or wrong, thieves...

and yes. xerox... the big wigs thought it was nonsense... computers...pffft

:winkwink:

apple went down and came up cuz of the ipodz

pretty entertaining movie. i saw it years ago.

Didn't Xerox researchers invite Steve Jobs to PARC after the suits east coast didn't want anything to do with what they developed?

Nice find man, I enjoyed watching that movie...

i should check this one out!

i should check this one out!

How is watching this movie on google video different than a torrent? :error

That's a good movie. I saw it just about a year ago. And yes, m$ and apple stole many ideas from other companies.

I loved in that movie,how they portrayed Steve Ballmer as this big dumb jock and he was far from that. I read in a article Bill Gates loves to do an impression of Michael Anthony Hall being him.

Thanks for sharing. I will be enjoying this later tonight.

Watching that movie, along with the recent interview of Bill and Steve together makes you realize that Bill is a smart businessman and Steve is a creative genious...

He was also Bill Gates pitbull.

Google must have a great legal team. I saw Ratatoulle on Google Video. Insanity!

If the government antitrust and anticompetitive allegations were true, Bill Gates would be the world's biggest white collar criminal.

Why was he never charged criminally?

seen it an year ago . really interesting :)

Wow no one cares that this movie is available for rental yet people are watching it for free? Amazing hypocrisy around these parts.

I also saw it when it came out.. pretty interesting. Xerox RnD made a lot of very important technological inventions that you are using right now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_PARC

That's been common knowledge for quite a while now. Like more than a decade.

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...silicon+valley

It was like the fourth link down on the main google search. I couldn't help it!

If it makes anybody happy I'll skip a spot in my netflix rotation..

I guess so being that they made a movie out of it. :thumbsup

Great point and goes to what I have said a few times.... the fight isn't just against torrents... it's against google, yahoo, myspace, facebook, youtube, etc etc.... there is sooooooooo much more to this than adult content being pilfered.

I loved that movie. Watched it on TNT when it first came out and still have it on VHS recording lol yeah thats how old that movie is.

Wrong!
Apple came back up because Steve Jobs came back.

Classic movie :) I love when Steve Jobs freaks out and has the classical music playing and is screaming at Bill Gates...

i have a computer mag from 1987 with an article about that

Good watch indeed.

if you liked the movie read this book its so good.
http://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Emp...9476677&sr=1-1

Actually we all have IBM to thank for the PC. they invented it, and then gave it away.

Great movie. Just goes to show that its all that acid can affect you in the future.

GUI though was a massive upgrade... IBM was pumpin out paper full of holes not too long before that...

Thanks Xerox



wozniak(sp?) should get the most credit out of all of them for the PC though...

Yep, as I said, more than a decade. :winkwink:

:1orglaugh

just torrents are bad. ;)

It's hilarious he saw it years ago?

... cant... resist.....
http://www.la.gg/upl/missed-the-train.jpg

being a copycat is the great way to success

Good artists copy, great artists steal!