Freebase provides RDF Linked Data

After Alan's talk at last week's WOD-PD in Vienna about Using the Web of Data we just discussed about Freebase and whether they would provide open standard RDF linked data in future... today Yves Raimond posted at to the SW mailinglist, they've launched http://rdf.freebase.com - ain't that funny?

Example, try:

But I don't think there will be a SPARQL endpoint soon. Will Sindice & co be allowed to crawl it? http://rdf.freebase.com/robots.txt returns a 404 at least...