Oracle's Larry Ellison: Google's Larry Page acted 'evil'

Larry Ellison is troubled by the Google guys, especially Larry Page.

In arecent interview, Ellison blamed Google CEO Larry Page for using Oracle’s code illegally.

Oracle argued that Google knowingly used the APIs without a license from Sun Microsystems, which Oracle acquired.

Thetrial concluded on May 31, 2012, with the judge ruling that APIs were not copyrightable.

Oracle hasappealed the ruling.

“Larry makes the decisions over there.

He runs that company.

No one else runs that company,” Ellison told Rose.

And at the very end, you press a button that said, ‘Convert this to Android format.’

We don’t compete with Google.

We don’t do anything Google does.

We just think they took our stuff and that was wrong.

That’s a completely separate issue.

I think what they did was was absolutely evil."

Rose asked Ellison if the alleged copying makes Page evil.

“No, it makes what he did evil, which is quite different.

And I know his slogan is ‘Don’t be evil,'” he said.

“I think he slipped up this one time.”

“Who has ever heard of this information being misused by the government?”

Rose asked Ellison at what point would NSA’s data collection and surveillance activities alarm him.

“If the government used it to do political targeting.

If the Democrats used it to go after Republicans.

If the Republicans used it to go after Democrats.