Well, that's the thing, isn't it? Broadcom would love you to train up your skills and be a specialist ... but they've already effectively turned their paid product into DEC Ultrix, so why should I put in the effort?

Yeah, but it's kind of like patents. There are countless patents for perpetual-motion machines, which we all know don't and can't exist. There are also tons that are essentially duplicates of ones that had already been granted earlier. Unfortunately, to get these issues resolved means going to the courts.

Citation, please. It's true that it's an issue to be litigated, but nobody is going to go to jail for it.

I fully expect that as soon as somebody moves to challenge this particular trademark in court, it will get tossed out.

You might be right ... or maybe you're just looking in the wrong place. In macOS, the settings to change text size aren't under Display, but Accessibility. (Yes, you may have to admit that your failing vision is a disability.)

Further anecdotal evidence: In European prints of the film, it's not Taco Bell; it's Pizza Hut (Taco Bell's sister company). I guess Taco Bell never went over much in Europe.

As far as I understand it, one of the reasons WebKit (and later Blink) became so dominant is because the Firefox browser core code is so Byzantine and near-unmaintainable that the other browser makers, rather than make Firefox good, thought it wiser to start over from scratch.

Tangentially, all sorts of companies profited greatly during the pandemic. People were stuck at home, and buying stuff online seemed like a way to amuse themselves. Streaming services did well. Video gaming did well. Pretty much anybody who was selling anything that could be brought to your home did well, and so did companies (such as reviews sites) that helped you get hold of that stuff.

Unfortunately (and foolishly), a lot of people who ran these companies seemed to believe the gravy train would last forever, and plotted their projections accordingly.

Unless, of course, it's meant to trigger a round of "shadow layoffs." You don't have to pay severance to people who up and quit.

Yes, this is the thing. Some people don't seem to realize that when enough money is at stake, it is not the IT professionals but the actuaries who are going to make that call.

Believe me, I am in no way defending Oracle. "We gotta get the fuck out from under Oracle" has been a theme long before this.

Well, "worse" is relative. But how do you think Red Hat became a $3bn/year company?

Every company, whether public or private, has investors. Those investors expect to get return on their investment, not to lose it.

HPE already bought 3Com and Aruba. Broadcom bought Brocade. It seems like there is a lot of market consolidation in this space.