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If you enjoy the content at iBankCoin, please follow us on TwitterLarry Ellison, the outspoken and brash chief executive of Oracle Corp., is always full of surprises.
This week, as one of the primary witnesses in Oracle’s (ORCL -0.46%) lawsuit against Google (GOOG +0.22%) , he might even be surprising himself. With Oracle alleging Google’s Android software infringes on its intellectual property, Ellison has become an unwitting avenger for his friend, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
Jobs, investors may remember, told author Walter Isaacson many things for his biography, “Steve Jobs” before he died last year. One of his more passionate diatribes was on the topic of Google, and how Android copied many features of Apple’s (AAPL -1.94%) iPhone and its iOS software. Jobs vowed he would “destroy Android, calling it a “stolen product.”
“I will spend my last dying breath, if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong,” Jobs told Isaacson. “I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this,” he said, even if he had to use all of Apple’s cash in the process.
To date, Apple has never sued Google itself, but instead has sued some of its hardware partners, including HTC and Samsung, for infringing on Apple’s patents including those that cover multi-touch gestures, swiping, pinching and expanding and other inventions.
