Star Bill Gates on Making ACPI Not Work with Linux
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 13th Apr 2007 11:19 UTC
Microsoft "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).
E-mail Print r 2   87 Comment(s) http://osne.ws/dnd
Thread beginning with comment 230495
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
RE: Hypocrite, much?
by nimble on Fri 13th Apr 2007 12:46 UTC in reply to "Hypocrite, much?"
nimble
Member since:
2005-07-06

Funny he would say this given that Windows' network stack is directly derived from BSD.

And more to the point, Windows is implementing all kinds of open standards that MS never did any work on except extending them with their own proprietary shite.

Edited 2007-04-13 12:46

Reply Parent Bookmark Score: 5

RE[2]: Hypocrite, much?
by kajaman on Fri 13th Apr 2007 13:01 in reply to "RE: Hypocrite, much?"
kajaman Member since:
2006-01-06

And even then... they break the open specifications making them useless ;) .

Reply Parent Bookmark Score: 3