Hardware manufacturers cannot be trusted with software. One day the horrors of proprietary firmware will come to light as well, and people will wake up to this

Hardware manufacturers cannot be trusted with software. One day the horrors of proprietary firmware will come to light as well, and people will wake up to this shit. Dells entire business line of Latitude laptops have been completely broken under Linux for 10 months. It took them that long to merely revert the "keyboard improvements" made between two BIOS revisions, but they subsequently shipped, and are still shipping, brand new machines without the fix or any downgrade path. These machines just aren't fit-for-purpose. Imho Richard Stallman is right if for no other reason than I see no other way to end all this consumer abuse and borderline criminal negligence. In the mean time, this debacle sounds Class-action worthy to me.