I'll have to second the recommendation for PrinceXml.
After investigating and trying at least 9 other open source kits I eventually gave up and went with PrinceXml. You can try the 'trial' version easily and it just works easily. Their support is actually good as well. I wish there was a good pdf toolkit that was open source. But they all seem to just do one odd piece of the puzzle poorly.
So at this rate I assume we'll get an appeal to the technologically illiterate supreme court and virtually all code written will violate someone else's copyright.
I guess I'll have to buy that shiny brick then. Because I can't imagine Apple giving a rat's ass about any third party benchmark. It hasn't even been available for more than six months and I can't imagine Apple marketing quoting anything they didn't make themselves.
Even the GPU is open? That seems to be the current problem child for being completely open. I can't tell from the summary and the site doesn't work without javascript. Anyone know?
Just stop going entirely. It is expensive and isn't even as nice as watching at home or with friends.
There's certainly no chance that social conventions will make it palatable again within our lifetimes.
Until every browser supports LUA I'm not sure how you'd get Javascript to go away. There are very few (non-primary/embedded) scriptable engine languages. Besides with all the recent development Javascript is probably the best one.