Gates says Gates says "Pirates of Silicon Valley" Got It Wrong Paul Jones
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates says that Turner Network Television "didn't get the facts quite right" in their television movie Pirates of Silicon Valley.
"Maybe I'm too close to the situation to like the portrayal, but that was not history," he said to an audience at the Dell DirectConnect conference for Dell Computer customers.
The movie portrayed Gates as an avaricious schemer who had a conflict with Steve Jobs when they were trying to build their companies in the early computer days. But Gates said it was different. Read the full story.