If you still see websites as just online magazines then I guess you're somewhat stuck in the 1990's.

What you suggest is like asking: Why can't we make programmes also run on Windows 95, just without all the fancy effects of Aero?

Like it or not websites will become more interactive, even /. is using AJAX these days.
See also Google Docs, or http://www.jsdesk.com/

You're obviously not a British football fan...

On the iPhone, /.'s left and right page columns are removed (I guess by CSS) so that the centre story column takes up the full width of the screen.

The only real problem is that the nested comments quickly run out of width when the nesting gets too deep. Oh and that floating Full/Abbreviated/Hidden thing on the left doesn't work, but then I don't use it on the desktop either.

Looking at the number of F vs C users currently, I would say that /.'s readership is split 50/50 between US and none US.
I would also assume that a significant number of the F submission were from people that use C and converted to F for the sake of the poll.

So when over half your readership is out side of the US and don't even adhere to US customs such as using F, then how US centric are you really?

I wish we didn't keep hearing (reading) "This is a US centric website" and just accept that us commie Europeans, Asians, etc have taken over.

(Not intended as a troll, just as a push for more articles with a wider world view. e.g. EU stories normally only come up when they relate to a US company such as MS or Intel)

I have not read the Apache licence, however I am given the impression its something near the BSD licence.

The difference between the GPLv2 and BSD is simple:

• BSD Protects your right to fork the code and do with what you will.
• GPL Protects your ability to merge forks, which in effect puts a limit on how you can fork the code in the first place.

So in the end, the choice is whether forking or merging is more important to you. Forking may mean more people can use your code. However others would argue the merging means more people can benefit from the collective contributions.

I have Tribes 2 for Linux and I loved playing it.

Unfortunately I can't really play it anymore, there seems to be no one to play with, bots are boring, and it is a total pain in the arse to install on a modern linux system (yes I know about icculus.org)

I have moonlight installed (what ever version Lenny has), and in Firefox add-ons->Plugins its listed as Silverlight Plug-in (1.0.30401.0).

However when I click play to see that advert it changes to a get Silverlight button.

I figured since I have flash 10 64bit installed (with flash block), I may as well install moonlight since there is a 64bit Debian package. I am not impressed that MS own website did not recognise it.

I will also need to find a flashblock equivalent.