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STEVEN JOBS
IBM and Hewlett-Packard are the treasure-laden galleons in this made-for-TV movie, while computer geeks Bill Gates and Steven Jobs are the shaggy-haired plunderers. When Gates and his people swagger into IBM and offer to license, not sell, the giant corporation their "DOS" operating system, we can't help but smile when one of the suits smirks, "Fine, the profits are in the computers themselves, not the software." The same thing happens when Jobs' partner, Steve Wozniakwho worked at Hewlett-Packard and was under contractual obligation to give them first shot at anything he helped inventplunks down a rough-looking personal computer framed in plywood, and the HP execs derisively pass.
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