No one cares about the opinion of an anonymous coward.

Now THERE is a ruling that could use a corrective law or amendment.

Its doing neither. Congress fucked up when it wrote the PPACA, so now the Judiciary branch made the decision that America lives in the real world, and its not in its interest to screw over a significant population because Congress wrote a provision ambiguously. There is a different standard in civil contract law, but even it does not always side with a plaintiff's interpretation of how an agreement is to be implemented.

If the wording in the PPACA is unacceptably flawed, there is nothing to stop the Congress from amending the law to reflect its intended wording. It should be a cakewalk, considering the Republican party controls both houses. Guess what? Your congressman/senator is choosing to accept the SCOTUS ruling.

Blame minecraft, they require you to use that java shit.

People don't seem to get that Google is not the solution for every ailment in the computer industry. Because Google is a conglomeration of startups, offering services for free, without a single clue about customer satisfaction. Google has no follow through. Its like Apple, with its inability to provide reliable services outside of the box it sells. Google will never buy postgres, then try to stick it to Oracle. Oracle needs to be a "threat" to Google's market plan before Google will react, and Oracle will never succeed in a manner where it can pose such threat to Google. If a competitor came out with a marginally better search engine, Google would be dead as a profitable company. They'd have to count on their self-driving car or "internet of things" to bail them out.

Lord knows, no one bothers to read Slashdot...

Yahoo. Oracle is the dinosaur that's going to need a decade to die, like IBM.

It worked for Mark Hurd.

You could have done this five years ago. When users realized that java was a defunct trend on the consumer PC.

Learn that the industry moves on. People & popular languages die; just learn to move on. No point in getting sucked into the theology of the previous era.

It's fun watching the Triceratops duke it out with the T. Rex. That is, if either of you were relevant...

Kudos for sticking with Linux, but you should be bright enough to figure out that this the "price" you pay for using Linux. The price of "anarchy" is that the community chooses its leaders; there is no "vetting" or removal procedure. Basically, things have to get XFree86 bad before something gets done about it. Your whining about the "proletarian coders' paradise" falls on deaf ears, much like the Soviet Union. Hell, there aren't even Linux (not RMS) evangelists that will bother to raise the battle flag anymore.

1) They license other companies intellectual property. They can't just willy-nilly make all of their drivers' source code public.

2) A decade ago, NVIDIA other companies were so competitive, they were concerned that revealing their driver source code could reveal their hardware tricks to speed up graphics performance. Then their competitors could reverse-engineer the detail in their next generation card, and "catch up" to NVIDIA's performance. Luckily, they may be finally realizing that they get more of an advantage by utilizing free debugging & fixes from their enthusiast customers.

Well, can't count on an anonymous coward to do it. Luckily what you say also doesn't matter.

> I'm not sure they won't be moving down market

They'll never move to the lower end of the market, because its tight margins means no profit. They basically will abandon the low end to feature phones and android. Market efficiencies are going to keep driving down the costs of android/feature phones to the point that Apple can't make an obscene profit on outdated iPhones. At that point, Apple will only offer products in the high end market, at an obscene profit margin.

My point is that its not worth burning billions making a mapping service competitive to google. They don't "need" an Apple maps service to keep selling their phones. They don't build their own internet search service. They would be a lot brighter building a high quality Apple cloud service. That would service their phones, tablets, laptop and desktops, give them the ability to provide uniquely user-friendly services, and enable "lock-in". No one takes Apple maps seriously, and once their phones become niche, they will have pumped a ton of money to provide an inferior service. It doesn't make sense from a marketing standpoint.