硅之牛仔Silicon Cowboys Movie Script

Chris cantwell:

The idea was that lawyers would descend on You in such a huge number it felt like the airborne was Parachuting into your office.

These guys could shut us down.

I mean, if they really want to go to the mat That's a distinct possibility.

Bob jackson:

I said, ibm has 9,000 patents.

Ok, maybe half of them don't apply to you, But we've shown you 20.

There are hundreds more, and you can invalidate some of them, But you can't invalidate them all.

David cabello:

They wanted a percentage of our sales price For all of our sales.

Bill fargo:

They were at $2 billion, And we were at $2 million.

It could end a company, stop a company in its tracks.

Bob jackson:

If they misbehaved-- loosely used term, But if they misbehaved we had the howitzers lined up.

Bill fargo:

I went in to rod and told him we had to get Serious about the negotiations.

They weren't going to settle for a few million dollars.

Rod canion:

He was very serious that if we didn't take This offer, then they were going to come after us, And they weren't going to back off.

We went up to about $130 million and that closed it.

Rod canion:

The sword hanging over our head, Which was what's ibm going to do to shut you down, Seemed like it had left until April the second.

Hey, everybody, the new computers are here.

New computers?

Who may I ask authorized new computers?

Yeah, who?

You did.

Who did?

I did?

Ibm-- of course I did.

The new ibm personal system ii, the next generation Of personal computing.

Announcer:

It was the biggest ibm product announcement Since the original pc.