Jamais sorti en France, Pirates of Silicon Valley est pourtant un film à voir absolument.

Le pitch, c'est l'histoire des débuts de l'informatique, et surtout l'histoire d'Apple et de Microsoft à travers Steve Jobs (Noah Wyle) et Bill Gates (Anthony Michael Hall) et leur combat sans fin.

On y découvre si on ne le savait pas déjà comment est née la navigation par fenêtres et avec une souris... On y apprend aussi qu'à l'époque, les géants de l'informatique (IBM et Xerox) n'auraient jamais imaginé que les gens normaux puissent faire quelque chose avec un ordinateur ! Et bien sûr, on apprend qui a copié sur qui, et surtout dans quel ordre. On peut aussi voir que Steve Ballmer, aujourd'hui big boss de Microsoft, n'était pas des plus fins dans toute cette histoire ;-)

Voici quelques citations en VO :

(Steve Jobs) Maybe fun is just fragments of existence with better packaging.

(Steve Jobs) We're better than you are! We have better stuff.
(Bill Gates) You don't get it, Steve. That doesn't matter!

(Businessman) Steve - it is Steve, right? You say this gadget of yours is for ordinary people. What on earth would ordinary people want with computers?

(IBM Executive) The profits are in the computers themselves, not this software stuff.

(Bill Gates) Now, we know that IBM has set up this place to complete head-on with Apple, and that you're gearing up to come out with a personal computer that will wipe them out. So we can get you an operating system.

(IBM executive) What kind of operating system?

(Bill Gates) It's called DOS.

(Ballmer (narrating)) This is amazing. Not just amazing, it's historic. It should be taught in all the history books. Hung and framed in the National Gallery or something, because this is the instant of creation of one of the greatest fortunes in the history of the world. I mean, Bill Gates is the richest guy in the world because of what started in this room. And you wanna know what else? It wasn't exactly smoke and mirrors, but we didn't have anything! I mean, not a damn thing! Here we were, this two-bit little outfit, telling IBM we had the answer to their problems. The DOS? The Disk Operating System? To make all those zillion IBM computers compute? We didn't remotely own anything like what Bill was selling them. Nada. Zip.