Nothing to Lose
...ding the operating system for the first microcomputers. Big Brother Bill's business savvy is apparent in his first negotiation, where he frankly tells a manufacturer that his hardware is nothing without the OS, and demands that his royalty fee be nearly doubled. Jobs shows his instability from the point he comes on screen as a drugged-out hippy. From there, we are moved on to the historic non-meeting of the two at a computer convention. Gates looks on at the Apple display that Jobs is ringmastering, while all the attendees swarm away from the hardware he has written the code for. The envy is clear on his face as he is waved away by Jobs. It is interesting to imagine what might have happened if those two had teamed up at that early date. From there, we get to to piracy: Jobs raiding the mouse from Xerox, and Gates pitching a DOS he didn't even have yet to IBM. Gates, of course acquired the program for $50,000 the next day from an anonymous programmer who was ecstatic to get the cash. (Gates recently threw this guy a couple million in gratitude.) From there, Gates steals the mouse concept from Apple and secures his dominance over technology. The rest of th...