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Question 1: State as many reasons supported with arguments as to why the movie name is Pirates of the Silicon Valley.

- Because silicon valley is where all this started and where the most important discoveries related with computers have been created, now at days is the place where all the important companies of websites and computers are installed. It is placed in San Francisco and such companies HQ such as Google, Yahoo! and IBM are placed in there. - Because actually Bill gates and Steve Jobs (protagonists of the film) were not the ones that invented all this operative systems or computer accesories, Bill Gates buy the operative system to a man in a sillicon valley cafe, the use of the mouse was a copy form other company (Xerox), and this input device was used later on in Apple. Gates used to enter to some companies to get some ideas from them, all of them not only related with operative systems, but shapes (designs), input and uotput devices. - THEY WERE NOT ORIGINAL, ALL THEIR "INVENTIONS" WERE TAKEN OUT FROM SOMETHING THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN CREATED, THEY ONLY MAKE THEM BETTER OR FAMOUS- - Jobs did not have a lot of colaboration in his inventions, most of the time he had people working for him. -Both (Bill gates and Steve Jobs) got friends that help them with the opperative systems for example Woz from apple he basically made the hard work and Jobs was the face of apple because Woz got problems to communicate the work they have done. -the rivality between Microsoft and apple they were enemies then they agree in work together then they figth again they couldnt live without watching what the other company was doing. -In addition, Steve "Woz" Wozniak that also features in the film, is actually one of the founders of Silicon Valley. I personally don't know, but i think his Segway company is placed in there. I think. Wozniak also serves as a narrator in the movie, I think is because he is part of Silicon Valley in a way -The reference of the "pirates" in the title is thanks to Steve Jobs company. They used to have a pirate flag in their facilities. It also may be referred because in the medieval times pirates steal from other ships. In the movie Jobs and Gates "Steal" some things from other companies, like Xerox or the guy in the cafe. Apple had the phrase "better be a pirate that being part of the navy". -Beacuse Apple was located in California and their success attracted other technology related companies. -Pirates refers to the fact that they stole most of the information and both of them were self-centred and looked only for their own interests.