Wow, it was that simple. But... if that's how you become a billionaire, why hadn't any of his parents become one already? Guess you need your parent to be an IP expert, it won't work if you're an IP expert yourself. PS. Does it have to be your parent anyway? Can't you just hire somebody else's patent for IP expertise on your way to become a billionaire?
I like the bit where Ballmer steps out of the scene and explains to the audience directly, the unfathomable magnitude of this world-changing *trillion* dollar bluff that was pulled off in this modest meeting.
Not really how it happened. IBM went to Gary Kildall's company (at Bill Gates' request) looking for an OS and he couldn't be bothered to meet with them, so he told them to talk to his wife. She refused to sign the NDA that said 'we were never here'. IBM called Bill Gates back and Bill was like, "well Gary, you had your chance" and then went to Gary's wife, offered her $50K for the OS, and she sold it because they needed the money. Bill licensing the software was 100% true, because IBM, up until then, was all hardware and thought that was it. Oh well. :)
What’s funny is this is maybe half the story. Steve Jobs, to get the idea for what the operating system would look like, would visit Xerox the printing company of all outfits and there he’d have them just SHOW him their prototype OS, which became the basis for all the window-opening home screens we navigate with today. It was a moment of corporate espionage. Was Jobs CIA?
I still don't really understand why IBM accepted these conditions when it was clear their product could be cloned easily. It's just a missing chunk of critical information in the whole story and it was also obvious that they had options as far as an operating system, it's never really made clear why IBM of all people were dicking around talking to some unknown outfit and accepting conditions like this.
This made me realize BIll gates was the real OG Gangster motherfucker went to IBM and sold them QDOS for billions when he went to this Seattle startup gave them only 50 thousand dollars. Steve Jobs was a little boy compared to this monster.
It's true. If Bill Gates had sold them the idea for a lump sum he would merely be a footnote in the history books. Nowadays everything has changed, especially IBM. They don't even sell consumer PCs anymore.
I heard something wild about this deal back in the 80's. Microsoft didn't just agree to sell IBM licenses for DOS to each computer with DOS installed. They insisted that IBM pay Microsoft the licensing fee for *every PC shipped* regardless of which OS was installed. This gave Microsoft so much revenue compared to their size, which allowed all the development and growth that followed.
This movie was extremely controversial back in the late 90s as it portrayed Bill Gates and Steve Jobs very negatively…….Steve Wozniak however, says it was the best and closest portrayal of both men that’s ever been made and that was after the newer Steve Jobs movies had come out.
IBM figured out how to develop a punch card system for the Nazi's to use in thier internment camps but the couldn't figure out how to program thier own machines they built haha yeah right
The movie is fake, it's a dramatization, if you read the actual history, IBM was aware they didn't have an operating system because THEY TOLD IBM THAT in their previous meeting where Gates instead sent them to meet Gary Kildall lol. IBM visited Kildall it went wrong for various reasons so they called Gates again and asked if they could arrange for an OS, they never actually had to have one built already (even if they went with Kildall, Kildall would've still had to port CP/M to IBM's pc and add the changes they requested). Microsoft just needed the know-how of how to make an OS, which Microsoft did, they were already developing Xenix at this point (their version of a UNIX operating system) The reason why DOS was purchased was due to IBM not wanting UNIX but rather something more user friendly, and due to time constraints that they needed it done quicker than Microsoft could do from scratch so they went to the guys who had DOS and licensed it, then purchased it outright a few days before the IBM PC launched. They also hired the guy who wrote that DOS, Tim Paterson, and he's the one that helped them re-write it into PC-DOS/MS-DOS (adding some stuff IBM wanted specific to their version of it) he worked for microsoft on and off for many years after this in fact, the last time he worked for them was between 1992 and 1998 i believe since then he went into business for himself The real story ofc wouldn't be a very fun movie, so they turned Jobs into a cult leader and Gates into a conniving evil mastermind lol much more interesting this way for a movie lol
The scary thing is, when this video was uploaded I was 10 and starting my final year of primary school and now I’m nearly 27 and a graphic designer. Reminds you how long RU-vid has been around.
Unlike most stuff that pandered to our age group, I remember this genuinely made people my age laugh when it came out, when I was twelve in Year 7 and 8. People at school were constantly quoting “I’m sorta buzzing this way, I’m also buzzing that way.” Though I personally could never figure out if the main character was meant to be a girl or a gay male, assuming it’s a girl, you’re not quite sure whether the others are really impressed and taken in by her or just humouring her.
This scene is absolutely insane when compared to the reality that Bill Gates mother got them the deal and IBM only picked them because another deal fell through.
IBM screwed up big time. They were bigger than Microsoft. They should have either bought the DOS outright or Microsoft outright and thus there would have been no clone market that would eventually kill the IBM PC when cloners made machines that work just as well but for less money.
I remember vividly watching this on TNT… 1999…I was in eighth grade on my gateway computer. He is absolutely right this should be learned in all History.
Now remember this... Paul Allen is going to get them that OS that changes Bill Gates life... he's the hero...but then when Paul Allen gets sick... well, let me just post what Wikipedia says about it: *Allen effectively left Microsoft in 1982 after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, though he remained on the board of directors as vice chairman. Gates reportedly asked Allen to give him some of his shares to compensate for the higher amount of work that Gates was doing. According to Allen, Gates said that he "did almost everything on BASIC" and the company should be split 60-40 in his favor. Allen agreed to this arrangement, which Gates later renegotiated to 64-36. In 1983, Gates tried to buy Allen out at $5 per share, but Allen refused and left the company with his shares intact; this made him a billionaire when Microsoft went public*
Im sure who ever wrote this left out all the CIA and Soros involvement in IBM caving to Bill Gates and how Jobs was able to visit all these secret places stealing the mouse and GUI technology.
