Larry Ellison, founder and chief executive of Oracle Corporation, gave his account of what it was like to watch his close friend Steve Jobs pass away during an interview with CBS' Charlie Rose.
Ellison said Jobs had given up on trying to beat the cancer, and instead decided to stop taking medication and wait for the inevitable.
You know, I-- I-- I'd go over there all the time. And the walks-- we'd always go for walks. We'd always go for walks. And the walks just kept getting shorter. Until near the end we'd kind of walk around the block or maybe-- maybe four blocks, something like that. And you just watched him getting weaker. And this is the strongest guy I knew. This was absolutely the strongest, most willful person I have ever met. And after seven years, the cancer even wore him out. And that's was what it was. He was just tired of fighting. Tired of the pain. And he decided, shocked Lorraine, shocked everybody that the medication was gonna stop. He just pulled off the meds-- I think on a Saturday or a Sunday. And by the following Wednesday he-- he was gone.
Rose went on ask the wealthy CEO about his company's ongoing legal issues with Google. Ellison placed the blame squarely on Google CEO Larry Page, excusing him of stealing Oracle ideas.
He run-- he runs that company. No one else runs that company. And they decided-- let me very clear. They-- when you program-- when you write a program for the android phone, you write it. You-- you use the Oracle tool-- Oracle Java tools for everything. And at the very end, you press a button and said, "Convert this to Android format." We don't compete with Google. We don't do anything Google does. We-- we just think they took our stuff and-- and that was-- and that was wrong. That's a completely separate issue.
Rose asked him if he believed Page was evil, to which Ellison replied: "No, it makes what he did evil. Which is quite different. And I know his slogan is "Don't be evil."
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