No, it's not "known to work". That's the problem. No one ever tests with those drivers anymore, they break frequently, and no one fixes them. That's why they were removed. If anyone cares enough to fix and maintain them instead of just complaining on Slashdot, they will be added back to the tree.

The idea is that if you have ancient hardware, you check out a Mesa version from git that works with your hardware. You can run old versions of Mesa just fine on newer X servers and kernels.

Most or all of these drivers were already broken because no one cared enough to maintain them or even test them from time to time. Anyone who needs the old drivers can compile out an older version of Mesa from git and run that. Which they already had to do.

It was also said that if someone comes along who is actually interested in maintaining one of the removed drivers, that the driver would be restored to the source tree.

Nothing to see here, move along.

Not true at all. Especially not for the American media conglomerates.

Wrong story...

There's no need. The price of gasoline has gone up faster than the government or anyone else would have dreamed of 10 years ago. The price of gasoline tripling hasn't really stopped that many people from driving as one would expect. It just increased the profit margins of the oil companies.

I wish.

You should actually try it, especially on non-Windows. I've never seen an application written for .NET that works out of the box with Mono on Linux.

Why do the Slashdot editors keep posting InfoWorld links? The submitter's name is even linked to the InfoWorld homepage, so they're just giving free traffic away to the site.

Nope. Sound cards haven't had game ports for years.

The equation in the original post says that, but the post he replied to (incorrectly) says the equation should be different.

It would be missing a colon in that case.

Depends on the authorities. I don't see why Google would be inclined to pay attention to a demand from a municipal government with no regulatory authority or control over it.

Outlook is not the only native email client, you know.