Great Scene - Pirates of Silicon Valley, stealing from a rich neighbor
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters post it as a joke or reference whenever a story involves one company accusing another of copying, or of stealing from a common source, as in the Samsung-versus-Apple case.
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What it is
A 2.5-minute clip from the 1999 TV movie Pirates of Silicon Valley in which actors playing Bill Gates and Steve Jobs argue over who copied whom. Gates answers with the 'rich neighbor' analogy: both of them took ideas from Xerox.
What people said
Cites abirch · 2026-09 · Hacker News · on “Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres”
Like this scene from Pirates of Silicon Valley between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs: [this video] Bill was saying that Steve was stealing from Xerox so it's okay if Bill stole from Xerox first.