Or, better, eliminate patents entirely.

They serve no useful purpose, expect to stunt economic growth and hinder innovation. Why keep them around?

Get the OpenGL Superbible. It's quite good.

Also consider getting a book on "3D Graphics" that uses OpenGL for its examples, rather than a book on OpenGL. The difference is quite stark.

Really? It's been published as PDFs (and HTML references up to the current Red Book edition) for as long as I can remember.

All of the .so files are distributed as binary files. That includes their libGL.so.

You're thinking of the .ko file, which is compiled against the specific Linux kernel you have installed (and incidentally linked against a precompiled object file), and which is non-portable except to systems running the same kernel version, with the same .config and built with the same version of GCC.

Everything else is binary.

And the guy that wrote it said in no uncertain terms that he has zero interest in starting it back up.

The summary here is horrible. It doesn't actually have vi keybindings. The default bindings are decidedly vi-like, but it's hardly a selling-point of the browser. The vi bindings are merely a convenience to get you started in configuring it. In fact, the whole thing is quite unlike vi in many ways. You virtually have to implement all of the vi bindings yourself if you want more than just hjkl.

The real selling point is that you can configure everything that the browser can do. Everything from the way cookies are handled to the way the UI functions.

Corporation - n. - An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit, without individual responsibility.

They did precisely the same thing with the PS2. Early games were kinda shitty because no one could figure out how to program it. Fast-forward 7+ years and newer games are getting more elaborate visuals and take better advantage of the very unusual hardware.

I imagine a lot of people felt this way about the PS1 when it came out.