Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 13th Apr 2007 11:19 UTC
"It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work" said Bill Gates in 1999 (pdf). While we don't know if he actually managed to do just that (creating problems to other OSes to work well with ACPI), but if he did, it is a good explanation why ACPI has been flaky on the majority of x86 computers with anything else other than Windows (the older, APM standard, seemed more compatible with alternative OSes).
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RE[2]: What Goes Around Comes Around
by Soulbender on Sat 14th Apr 2007 12:51
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"I'd also love to know what Bill meant when he said "if we do this work", and I'd be interested to know what that work actually is."
Most likely he meant working on defining/creating the standard together with HP, Toshiba, Intel and Phoenix.