Until he dies.

He was an inspiring guy to me. If you haven't seen his speech at Stanford where he talks about his career and battle with cancer, check it out on Youtube.

The Rumor: The anti-Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, worth $5.1 billion, has no public record of charity.
The Reality: In 1987, Jobs created the Steven P. Jobs Foundation with the intended purpose of promoting "social entrepreneurship" but shut it down after a little more than a year with no charitable output of which to speak.

Over the last decade, Jobs has emptied his change drawer of $254,000 in donations to national political Democratic campaigns while Apple’s contributions went as high, in 2008 alone, as $1.7 million. However, this money shouldn’t be confused with charity; it’s quite literally, buying influence in Washington. Corporations making heavy investments in congressional influence is the cost of doing business. Apple is just one of the 700-plus clients in the communications and electronic sector that spent a collective $363 million on lobbying during the 2010 election cycle.

However, it’s not outside the realm of possibility that the secrecy shrouding Jobs’ private life may very well extend to his charitable giving protocol. Who knows...maybe he was the anonymous donor behind a $150-million pledge to the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California at San Francisco in 2007. A donation like that would certainly square with his highly altruistic 1993 quote in the Wall Street Journal: "Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful ... that's what matters to me."

6) He doesn't give any money to charity. And when he became Apple's CEO he stopped all of its philanthropic programs. He said, "wait until we are profitable". Now Apple is profitable, and sitting on $40 billion in cash, and still no corporate philanthropy. I actually think Jobs is probably the most charitable guy on the planet. Rather than focus on which mosquitoes to kill in Africa (Bill Gates is already focusing on that), Jobs has put his energy into massively improving quality of life with all of his inventions.

People think that entrepreneurs have to some day "give back". This is not true. They already gave at the office. Look at the entire ipod/Mac/iphone/Disney ecosystem and ask how many lives have benefited directly (because they've been hired) or indirectly (because they use the products to improve their quality of life). As far as I know, Jobs has never even commented about his thoughts on charity. Good for him. As one CEO of a (currently) Fortune 10 company once told me when I had my hand out for a charitable website, "Screw charity!"

If you watch the same video that I did, Steve Jobs is a prick--and his poor health doesn't save him from that labeling.

He's still upset about Microsoft "stealing" his operating system.
He's still upset about Microsoft stealing his font renderer.
He talked about how great he was, and about how he didn't even need to graduate.

He strikes me as a very bitter man.

So he's either grossly misunderstood and under appreciated by dozens of people, or just a prick.

Spend all the money and time on building better society.

Look at Linus .

I'm not saying Bill Gates charity is a bad thing, but it's nothing more special than the old lady next door who gives 50 cents to the church missions jar every week.