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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Foxconn deliberately sabotaging their BIOS to destroy Linux ACPI
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>> | Complained to the Federal Trade Commission
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>> | http://www.ftc.gov
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>> | Foxconn
>> | 458 E. Lambert Road Fullerton
>> | Fullerton, CA
>> | 92835
>> |
>> | FOXCONN PHONE NUMBER: 714-871-9968
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>> | Company sold me a computer motherboard, model G33M-S, claiming that it
>> | was compliant with ACPI versions 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0.
>> |
>> | Linux and FreeBSD do not work with this motherboard due to it's ACPI
>> | configuration, using a disassembler program, I have found that it
>> | detects Linux specifically and points it to bad DSDT tables, thereby
>> | corrupting it's hardware support, changing this and setting the system
>> | to override the BIOS ACPI DSDT tables with a customized version that
>> | passes the Windows versions to Linux gives Linux ACPI support stated on
>> | the box, I am complaining because I feel this violates an anti-trust
>> | provision in the Microsoft settlement, I further believe that Microsoft
>> | is giving Foxconn incentives to cripple their motherboards if you try to
>> | boot to a non-Windows OS.
>> |
>> | We have received your complaint.
>> |
>> | Thank you for contacting the FTC. Your complaint has been entered into
>> | Consumer Sentinel, a secure online database available to thousands of
>> | civil and criminal law enforcement agencies worldwide. Your reference
>> | number is: 19642372
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | They detect Linux, give it a bad DSDT table, one that looks ok at a
>> | glance, but broken in subtle ways so that some of it works, but not
>> | correctly.
>> |
>> | You call them to ask why their board won't run Linux.
>> |
>> | They tell you to buy Vista.
>> |
>> | They're basically rubbing Microsoft's back.
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>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249
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>
> Fscking BASTARDS!
>
> I have always suspected this FoxCON of material con jobbie.
> Thank goodness I never bought dodgy Foxcon mboards.
>
> There is a lot of dicing about and bundling that tells you
> there is something wrong with their business - its all a con job
> to bundle micoshaftee vendor lock in things with the mboard.
> Now its gone official, the anti-trust complaints should be
> widened and micoshaft banned from trading me thinks along
> with Foxcon for their big con.
>
> Did Balmer discuss foxcon con job with Nellie Kroes when he parachuted
> in to the EU?
Sweaty the Impaler: "The BIOS ain't done until Lunix-fsckin-cancer won't run."
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