Larry bought Android without telling Eric even though Eric was the CEO of Google at the time. He is a bean counter and the only form of accountability he knows is billable hours.
For decades, SUN Microsystems was a great place to work. From SUN came some amazing technology that still lives on(ZFS anyone?).
I prefer organisations like that over organisations that’s only purpose seems to be to extract wealth from the economy, to line the pockets of the few well connected.
Indeed, including code still in modern Linux distros.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_(software)
P.S. re the Android story, which seems obviously exaggerated, gotta take into account that Eric has a strong incentive to deliberately distance himself from the story given his role on Apple Board of Directors at the time.