Around Malibu, Larry Ellison is mostly known as a billionaire real estate mogul who opened a couple of nighttime hotspots, may eventually want to own every home on Carbon Beach, and auspiciously parks his massive yacht off the coast from time to time.
But it is his influence in the field of software and sport of sailing that has him back in recent headlines, after the notoriously private Ellison sat down for a rare interview with Charlie Rose last week on “CBS This Morning.”
During the in-depth interview, Ellison touched on his ongoing legal battle with Google, defended his company’s sponsorship of the American sailing team, weighed in on NSA surveillance and opened up about his friendship with former Apple CEO, Steve Jobs.
Firing a shot across the bow at the tech giant whose motto is “don’t be evil,” Ellison alleged Google stole programming language and software for its Android phones from his software company, the Oracle Corporation, under the supervision of CEO Larry Page. He called Page’s actions “absolutely evil.”
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