____/ Robin T Cox on Monday 10 December 2007 18:34 : \____
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:55:47 -0800, nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> SEAGATE'S latest batch of drives, the ironically titled Free Agent
>> series are not compatible with the Open Sauce operating system Linux...
>
> Better titled: 'Seagate shoot themselves in the foot'
>
> Why else would they deny sales of their products to a market which,
> albeit small, might give them a competitive advantage over all too many
> similar products?
>
> Can they afford to turn away customers?
This isn't exactly new. They have been Microsoft pals for quite some time. I
wrote about it in the weekend.
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2007/12/09/say-goodbye-to-seagate/
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