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Update on Linux/Foxconn issue by Ubuntu dev. Matthew Garrett
- gm 18y agoFinally, someone agrees with me: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=256636 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=256636
- axod 18y agoDoesn't it seem entirely wrong that the BIOS has any idea about O/S's to start with? Completely the wrong way around.
- nickb 18y agoNot only that, but to specifically test for an OS that supposedly they don't care about and give it crap data?!
- axod 18y agoSure. So it'd be like finding this in a Windows Vista system call... if (appName.equals("firefox")) { sleep(60); addSomeBugs(); }
- nickb 18y agoMS has a history of doing this sort of stuff. For example, they deliberately fed Opera browsers broken CSS files: http://people.opera.com/howcome/2003/2/msn/ http://people.opera.com/howcome/2003/2/msn/ Therefore, MSN looks for "Opera" in the User-Agent string and purposely sends Opera7 a style sheet which distort pages.
- j2d2 18y agoThey caused quite a stir when they broke kerberos too.
- orib 18y agoMore like, they don't care about it, and accidentally forgot to update a table entry. This is why Linux lies and says it's Windows to ACPI. I strongly doubt that it's malicious, they just don't care enough to test it and keep it up to date with Linux, so stuff breaks.
- wmealing 18y agoI don't think Garrett works for/with ubuntu for some time. See even the tags in the blog.