Re: [News] Foxconn Reported to FTC for Sabotage Against Linux

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:32:28 +0000, 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

>>> |

>>> | http://www.ftc.gov

>>> |

>>> | Foxconn

>>> | 458 E. Lambert Road Fullerton

>>> | Fullerton, CA

>>> | 92835

>>> |

>>> | FOXCONN PHONE NUMBER: 714-871-9968

>>> |

>>> | 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!

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>> I have always suspected this FoxCON of material con jobbie.

>> Thank goodness I never bought dodgy Foxcon mboards.

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>> 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.

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>> Did Balmer discuss foxcon con job with Nellie Kroes when he parachuted

>> in to the EU?

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> Sweaty the Impaler: "The BIOS ain't done until Lunix-fsckin-cancer won't run."

Why bother?

It looks like the people preloading Linux laptops are doing a fine job of

ensuring Linux is a piker......

http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Reviews/Lenovo-Launches-Linux-Laptop-and-Leaves-Lots-of-Questions/

After the initial boot and logon, we were faced with a clean,

well-organized desktop, but one element caught our eye right away¡Xa text

document called ThinkPad Readme.txt. We launched it and found that the

document¡¦s first line was ¡§Limitations, Workarounds and How To¡¦s for

SLED10.¡¨ We did not like the sound of that ¡§limitations¡¨ element. After

all, isn¡¦t Linux supposed to be about overcoming limitations?

The first part of the document covered ¡§features not supported.¡¨ Some of

those features are:

* ThinkVantage Active Protection System.

* ThinkVantage Access Connections for SUSE Linux

* ThinkPad Configuration for SUSE Linux

* ThinkPad Power Manager for SUSE Linux

* Wireless WAN Adapter

* ThinkVantage Button

* (Intel Graphics System) DVI Output

From our point of view, Lenovo was not off to a good start.

All Ballmer has to do is sit back and laugh his ass off.

I'm sure he is.

--

Moshe Goldfarb

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