Corrupt LINUX ACPI tables in BIOS

[saaya]

It seems that Foxconn have deliberately set up their BIOS to cripple linux users.

RAMMIE, you misunderstand. The BIOS is written SPECIFICALLY to disadvantage linux. It's not a matter or apathy, it's DELIBERATE. The BIOS even goes to the trouble of using multiple redundant checks to make sure the OS is or is not Windows Vista/XP rather than just using the standard checks. It is very, very deliberate.

dont you think this sounds "a little" paranoid ?
i work for foxconn and never noticed that any of our engineers, hardware or software, have anything against linux, on the contrary...

and even if they had any problem with linux, why would we do this?
why would we make such an effort as the article suggest, of doing multiple checks and whatnot and then deliberately create false tables, to cause a very small percentage of the users of that product to have a hard time?

just think about it, it doesnt make any sense whatsoever...

people just love the idea of a big evil organisation trying to enslave the human race, and consipracy theories and whatnot... but isnt it pretty obvious that this is just a bug or simply badly written acpi tables?

i dont know that much about BIOS programming, so i might be wrong...
im on a business trip atm, but when im back in taipei ill check with the engineers to see what this is about, ok?