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).
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RE[4]: It's a known problem...
by superstoned on Fri 13th Apr 2007 14:15 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: It's a known problem..."
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I don't run into these sites, normally. But recently, I tried to find and book a holiday online. Well, those sites suck, at least the dutch ones. 50% of em doesn't work at all in konqueror, and firefox doesn't do much better. Dunno if they even work in IE but I bet they do...

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