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SnowFire posted 06-20-99 10:10 PM ET
Anyone else watch this show? Pretty good. I must say I never really realized how much of a bastard Steve Jobs was before this. Bill Gates was still coldly evil as usual, as I expected him to be. Like really evil. No big surprise there.
I was kinda dissapointed that there wasn't anything on what happened after 1984, but I guess that was the best part we saw, eh?
OldWarrior_42 posted 06-20-99 10:51 PM ET
My oldest daughter(17) and i just finished watching it and i thought it was interesting too. So did she but she likes Bill Gates(because he is geeky and rich)(dont know where I went wrong there).They just kind of epitomized the American way....they stole it.
TheMadStork posted 06-21-99 12:40 AM ET
Please keep in mind that you saw a fictional television program, not a video of the subject's lives.
Don't believe the hype.
I go now.
OldWarrior_42 posted 06-21-99 01:55 AM ET
Mad Stork...thank you for that enlightenment....and here I thought TV was gospel...
SnowFire posted 06-21-99 07:07 AM ET
Yeah, thanks for the tip. But seriously, I was already familiar with many of the details of what happened, and they matched. It wasn't just fictional as in "made up out of the blue."
TheMadStork posted 06-22-99 06:51 PM ET
My point was that it is too easy to come to a conclusion through a fictional work "based on a true story."
People are never as good or as bad as you think they are, including you.
I go now.
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Author	Topic: Pirates of Silicon Valley
SnowFire	posted 06-20-99 10:10 PM ET Anyone else watch this show? Pretty good. I must say I never really realized how much of a bastard Steve Jobs was before this. Bill Gates was still coldly evil as usual, as I expected him to be. Like really evil. No big surprise there. I was kinda dissapointed that there wasn't anything on what happened after 1984, but I guess that was the best part we saw, eh?
OldWarrior_42	posted 06-20-99 10:51 PM ET My oldest daughter(17) and i just finished watching it and i thought it was interesting too. So did she but she likes Bill Gates(because he is geeky and rich)(dont know where I went wrong there).They just kind of epitomized the American way....they stole it.
TheMadStork	posted 06-21-99 12:40 AM ET Please keep in mind that you saw a fictional television program, not a video of the subject's lives. Don't believe the hype. I go now.
OldWarrior_42	posted 06-21-99 01:55 AM ET Mad Stork...thank you for that enlightenment....and here I thought TV was gospel...
SnowFire	posted 06-21-99 07:07 AM ET Yeah, thanks for the tip. But seriously, I was already familiar with many of the details of what happened, and they matched. It wasn't just fictional as in "made up out of the blue."
TheMadStork	posted 06-22-99 06:51 PM ET My point was that it is too easy to come to a conclusion through a fictional work "based on a true story." People are never as good or as bad as you think they are, including you. I go now.