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Foxconn, ACPI fail, and leaving money on the table
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| It's cheaper to support Linux than to add support for another proprietary OS.
| For ACPI, just read one paper and avoid Linux-specific tests. For most
| hardware, somebody please throw the Linux Driver Project a bone—there's a
| long list of driver developers waiting for one of the rare unsupported
| devices.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/community/?q=node/23489
Related:
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| From: Bill Gates
| Sent: Sunday, January 24, 1999 8:41 AM
| To: Jeff Westorinen; Ben Fathi
| Cc: Carl Stork (Exchange); Nathan Myhrvold; Eric Rudder
| Subject: ACPI extensions
|
| One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn’t try and
| make the “ACPI” extensions somehow Windows specific.
|
| It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the
| work and the results is that Linux works great without having to do the
| work.
|
| Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me.
|
| Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not
| the others even if they are open.
|
| Or maybe we could patent something related to this.
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http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03020.pdf
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