>Java is free like in libre, the reference implementation is under the GPLv2: OpenJDK

Java is NOT free as in Libre. While OpenJDK is the "reference implementation" (which in Oracles terminology means "Blame the Apache Foundation") it does not and will never include the closed source goodies in Oracle Java.

In addition, Linux distros are no longer allowed to redistribute Oracle Java due to some bizarre Ellinsionian fiat. (probably they want you to use Snoracle Linux). So If you still need Oracle Java for whatever reason, you have to install it yourself. However despite Larry's best efforts, the Community (thanks!) has come through with scripts and native packages to install recent Oracle Java on any Linux distro you can think of.

Good God! next thing you'll tell me Slackware's going to be doing dependency resolution!

Am I right my assumption that there may be as many as 8 volumes of Volume 4?

> They need private contractors. Government officials are not capable of wiping their own arses, let alone data.
Who let you out of the Daily Mail comments section?

> If you need permission to use it, is it really open? I think that's the main point people seem to disagree on here.

In the context "Open" means you are free to read the standard, inspect (and use) the source of the reference implementation and even implement and distribute your own implementation. However at some stage you will most likely have to pay a licence fee if you are distributing h264 encoded videos or a implementation of the h264 codec.

If there was never any chance of attracting a licensing fee then it would be "Free" (as in beer and as in possibly speech).

According to comments on the linked article the problem was that Cisco CRS-1 routers misinterpreted or didn't understand the modified BGP data and passed on corrupted versions of the BGP data.

Don't be daft! But if they can nag Jörg Schilling until he changes the licence to make them shut up, Debian might include cdrtools again. But that happening is less likely than Oracle changing it's mind about supporting OpenSolaris.

I've often thought that the stupid rules imposed by the FIA contributed to deaths of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenburger. It's sad to see that 16 years later they are still making senseless rulings.

>Any good car racing sims that work with linux?

Don't know how good they are, but there are TORCS http://torcs.sourceforge.net/ and its fork Speed Dreams http://www.speed-dreams.org/

Almost certainly some brain dead acquaintance of yours knows both your email addresses, had them in their email address book under your name and allowed Facebook to rifle through it when they signed up.

If it gets the graphics card vendors to pay attention to the 2D API's again and improve support, then Hell, yes I'm all for it. Even on XOrg the graphics card vendors ignore the 2D graphics acceleration API's these days with the obsession with 3D. If you are lucky they will accelerate them indirectly through OpenGL. There is a reason why the open source XOrg drivers are generally faster at 2D graphics than the proprietary ones.

"Even if you hate RMS's vitriol, as usual, he is right, and everyone against him is clearly, and most solidly in the wrong."

There, that's a nice rational, not at all smacking-of-religious-zealotry, position.

Here you go:
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/

Please excuse the technical problems with the parent.

Actually if you bothered to JFG, to would find that the One Million Dollars is in an endowment fund account administered by Goldman Sachs, so bar the bank collapsing or it getting embezzeled, the money is real qand is going nowhere.

See http://www.randi.org/joom/challenge-info.html [randi.org] for further info