A copyleft license [1] could probably eliminate most invasive proprietary "value-add". Though that might hinder adoption, being just a dump pipe or a box mover isn't very profitable. Hopefully companies are getting desperate enough to give up on Apple-like profits.

1. A license that requires derivative works to be distributed under the same terms

Apparently Einstein had an FBI file: http://www.fbi-most-wanted.com/albert-einstein.php

So did everyone particularly interesting at the time.

The page sends the filename to desktop browsers base64 encoded. Cute :).

High-level languages are more than just syntactic sugar.

Even Symbian recently got a POSIX-layer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.I.P.S._Is_POSIX_on_Symbian I have no idea how complete it is, but they did manage to port Qt.

Google Chrome Frame could also be helpful here. Macromedia somehow managed to get most people to install their terrible plugin.

Long before Chrome Frame even existed.

Yeah, but false positives would cause non-hilarious problems.

As long as there are so few sites that do this you could actually just check the list by hand before banning them from the index.

I can't wait to see the implementation. Maybe they'll do something interesting like making use of Cygwin or virtualization.

I don't know anything about the details, but apparently it's mostly GPLv2 or later: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/doc/COPYRIGHTS

Well, I'll be. That certainly paints a different picture than what's stated in http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/

Thanks!

IIRC, The not so Short Introduction to LaTeX is good: http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort