Antitrust

This business

is a living organism.

Multiplying constantly surrounded by predators.

There's no rule for idle time or second guessing,

new discoveries are made hourly.

New ideas are ready to be devoured and redefined.

This business is binary.

You're a one or a zero.

Alive or dead.

There is no second place.

It's been suggested by the media and congress

that you're violating antitrust laws, and threatening competition.

Mr. Winston, can you reasonably deny

that you have a monopoly in this area?

Well, the only monopoly

we have at n.U.R.V, congressman, is monopoly on excellence.

This is still a free market.

But a free market encourages competition.

You prevent it.

Congressman, I don't need to remind you that the essence of competition

has always been quite simple.

Any kid working in a garage anywhere in the world,

with a good idea, can put us out of business.

You can try a version qualification scheme if you have the best driver.

Wait a second.. Go back up.

Move, move.

Teddy, I think I found our bottleneck.

- You did it! - Yee-haw!

God! That feels good.

It's gorgeous!

We're geeks.

Three months from today, n.U.R.V will launch synapse,

transforming the way humans communicate,

with synapse,

the entire world will be able to send or receive any message

be it audio, video or text on any medium.

Synapse will fully unite the global village.

You've set yourself real ticking clock here, Gary.

All of your competitors are desperate to get to the marketplace with this technology before you.

It has even been suggested

that you won't hit this very ambitious launch date.

We're going to hit that date. You can bet on it.

How can you be sure?

We'll do whatever it takes... To get there.

Pace yourself, Brian.

Over here...

Milo, what do you think of this?

I know I promised my mom we're gonna make this garage famous,

but I really don't think we're gonna be here that long.

'Cause I've got us 3 appointments with the venture capitalists.

Oh, that is fantastic

I can stop taking calls from those corporate recruitment losers.

I'll do the talking, Brian. Here's your shirt, Milo.

Guys, what are these?

Don't you know? The worse you look, the smarter they think you are.

They are going to think you're a genius, Brian.

I just said "Milo" and "Teddy", and the wallets flew open!

They were dying to give me their money.

You guys are the greatest duo, since hewlett and packard.

Lennon and McCartney.

Ben and Jerry!

I'm Lennon, okay Teddy?

Does that make me yoko?

Alice, you've got to make him do this startup with Teddy.

Gary, if he wants to go take a few interviews... check out his options,

as his friend, i think you should support him in that.

Want to know the best way to manipulate somebody?

Yeah.

Don't try.

"As graduating students for the Stanford university computer science department,

"you have a magnificent foundation... In theory.

"What you need is a creative, innovative..." - So pretentious!

- The guy's a fascist monopolist. - Exactly.

The guy knows how to get people's attention. He does.

Shut up... shut up!

I'm trying to listen.

"Will field your questions."

"Thanks for taking the time to check us out."

"I'll look forward to seeing some of you up here at the nurv campus in the near future."

- Questions, cool! - I've got a question for him.

"If you guys have questions, fire away."

Why not make synapse open source?

Don't you have enough money? Heh.

Here is an interesting question:

"What kind of beverages do you offer your programmers?"

- Oh, come on! - What did you expect?

- He's avoiding the issue, man. - You can't ask him that.

He should run for President, or something.

I'm just gonna of throw these at you. You know, like they do at the zoo.

Hello.

It's for you.

- Hello - Milo? This is Gary Winston.

I've heard great things about your work, I'm...

Hoping you and your friend Teddy can come up here.

Hey, Larry, you still got my union Jack cd?

No, I gave it back.

Ok, I don't know who this is but your timing really blows

'cause I just saw him in a live chat.

Right, well, a pair of airline tickets are on there way to you,

I'd love to show you some of the things we're doing here.

Who was it?

Gary Winston.

Ha, that would be funny.

I just spoke to Gary Winston?

I can't believe you're not going to take that ticket!

Give it to me!

You don't want to work there, Brian.

They squeeze everybody out of business. They get bigger and fatter...

That's why I want to work there.

You sure he didn't ask for my number?

Milo, we can't go up there.

They don't even know the meaning of open source.

You know this, we've talked about this.

They just want to own everything!

- They clone stuff, reverse engineer it... - I know

everybody is stuck with their inferior proprietary version.

They're being investigated by the justice department for Christ's sake.

Tell him, Larry.

I think that he should go up there and check it out if he is curious.

You do?

Sure, I mean... it's your life.

I need another beer.

So, you couldn't convince your friend Teddy to come?

No, he is pretty tight with his folks.

Yeah? We can move them up here same goes for yours.

My parents are dead.

I'm sorry man.

So how far is the campus?

We're not going to campus.

All I can say is it's unfortunate.

We offered a lot of money. A substantial amount of money, Gary.

No sale.

Can we buy into their stock? Or is that a justice department problem too?

There is no stock, Randy. I mean there's no company!

Gary Winston's office. Can you hold, please?

Thanks for holding.

Yes, he is in a conference right now. Can I take a message?

The cold, hard facts are that anything is possible.

Anything, anything. You're just not thinking creatively.

I have every confidence that you can do that, Phil.

- It's a difficult one but we're going to prevail. - All right, all right.

Gary Winston's office.

Let me check that for you.

I'm sorry, I don't see anything new.

Milo?

Hi

it's not everyday we have genius in the house.

- Want a soda pop or something? - No, thanks.

Come on in.

Digital canvas.

The house knows the paintings I like, knows my favorite music.

Same for anybody else that's in the system.

There's a little sensor that detects who's in the room.

Doesn't Bill Gates have something like that?

bill who? Heh.

No, no. His is primitive.

So I understand you're thinking of doing a start up.

Yeah.

My friends and I have been planning on doing a media delivery system for a long time.

It would be open source, we'd...

Offer it free for everybody, just charge for tech support.

Wow, free.

This is a cut-throat business we're in, Milo.

It's just a matter of time before someone "borrows" your technology,

improves it and makes a billion dollars on it.

What would you do with a billion dollars, Milo?

I don't know.

I'll tell you what you could do.

You could take that money and put it back into technology,

education and the arts.

You can transform culture.

I fund an opera company, symphony orchestras, museums, theaters,

I have donated thousands of computers to schools throughout the country.

The question really is,

how many of the people that you share your discoveries with,

will be altruistic,

and how many will make fortunes off of your generosity?

Come on in here.

Check this out.

- This is a synapse satellite. - You bet.

I've got 240 of these up there.

12 different orbital patterns, 20 satellites.

The mother satellite of each ring

passes over us every night at 10 o'clock

to allow for station keeping, re-programming, etc.

They in turn pass the data along to the sister satellites in their ring.

- That's the coolest I've ever seen. - I'm total wrapped up in this.

It's like I've got my own mission control right here on my PC.

Activation codes, ip addresses, flight path...

- It's the best train set ever, hum? - You bet!

We've loaded a backdoor to receive synapse transmissions

and all of our os software for the past 6 years.

We've developed compression schemes and file formats that achieve connectivity,

but..

We have a problem.

You know what that problem is?

Your adaptors can't overcome the bandwidth limitations of wireless hand-helds.

That's right.

Data takes too long to download so your image gets...

Image, ah, goes fuzzy