With one or two major exceptions, those third-party games are mostly indie games that had to port to Linux in the past to be part of a Humble Indie Bundle. His point stands - there's no guarantee that Steam for Linux will produce enough game sales for the major publishers to start porting their titles to Linux.

It's much more likely that IT for both sides was handled by the "Windows corporate crowd".

Try the first line of the summary: "You may recall from last week the news item concerning FunnyJunk's extortion ..."

The meaning of that is "this is a continuation of a story that has been posted recently on Slashdot, and if you missed the earlier story, you might want to read up on it for context." That's why he included a link to the previous Slashdot post.

It's likely that the Does are supposed to be the unknown individuals that he's alleging "hacked" his site, infringed his trademark on his name with a false Twitter account, and did the other things he's claiming happened to him as a result of The Oatmeal's posting of his letter.

Although the US government is being paid by the student, I would be surprised if it makes a long-term profit from all the loans it gives with generous interest rates to students with little or no credit history. I'm not an expert on this, though.

2009 was when the number of quakes in Oklahoma jumped to more than 1000. November 5, 2011 is when the magnitude 5.6 earthquake happened.

They don't own the copyright to all of the open source Radeon code. Some of it was done by community developers or developers for Red Hat and VMware.

My guess would be no.

At least in the US, when buying a new computer from a store, you're pretty much forced to buy either Windows or OS X. Even if you want to run Linux on your computer, you'll have to buy a license for one of those operating systems (probably Windows) with the computer.

People didn't give that up. Congress gave it up for us, and people vote based on other issues.

It was removed from Google's app store. Google is a US company and has to follow US laws. It's still available outside the app store.

You mean copyright trolling, not patent trolling.

Or just use a new distro and compile and install Mesa yourself. It's not that hard.

There's no need for a fork. If anyone shows an interest in making one of the old drivers compatible with the current driver interface (there were some recent driver API changes in texture mapping) and maintain it, then it will be added back to the Mesa tree as long as it's maintained and doesn't stay broken.

It's making it impossible to change the driver interface, for one thing. As new features are added to Mesa, the driver interface has to change. Using the same driver interface for i965 and the Gallium state tracker that's used on a 3dfx Voodoo card creates some problems due to the vast differences in how those generations of hardware work.

Since the drivers for all of that old hardware were unmaintained, they were hurting anyone who needed to change the driver interface for any reason, because it would sometimes require changing the ancient drivers for which no one has the hardware.