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
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> | 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.
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> | 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
> |
> | [...]
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> | 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.
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> | 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
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?
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