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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.


 * 1) 1-.Apple headquarters had a pirate flag on their flagpole, it was similar to the normal pirate flag but it had an apple on it.


 * 1) 2-.Bill Gates acted as a Pirate when he "betrayed" Steve Jobs. Bill cleverly had Steve thinking that he was a loyal apple company employee while in reality he was just working for him to get his grubby hands on the software apple had developed.


 * 1) 3-.Steve said to his workers that the two divisions of Apple were very different, one was greater and the other was weaker. He then proceeded to telling one half that they were better, that led to feuds that entertained Steve, it was his entertainment on the Big Ship he called Apple, and as a big ship it was a pirate ship, with normal rowdy conflicts and whatnot.


 * 1) 4-.In Bill Gates and Steve Jobs' job they often had to act as pirates would, stealing from the competition, sabotaging the products of the enemy, infiltrating spies into alien territory. It was a war in which Bill Gates and Steve Jobs both wanted to be the ruler of the seven seas, but really, only one could hold his head up in victory.


 * 1) 5-.Firstly, it was supposed they were not enemies by the time their company was founded, but the need for victory and power over each other drove them to a huge fight between them discussing which one was better or worse, depending on their opinion. One of them ends losing and the other is proud of his victory. At the end, both of them had not an original computer development idea.


 * 1) 6-.Steve Jobs said somewhere in the movie something like this "IBM and all those big companies are like the royal float, so we (apple) will be pirates because its much more fun to be a pirate".