Foxconn deliberately sabotaging their BIOS to destroy Linux

Foxconn:

Dear Ryan, Making idle treats is not going to solve anything. As already stated this model has not been certified under Linux nor supported. As you are unhappy with the product- using a non-support operating system nor certified, please contact your reseller for a refund.

Ryan:

Yeah, well, I allege that you guys thoroughly suck. Learn how to write a BIOS before you go selling hardware with falsified specs. I've been debugging your AMI BIOS, and the ACPI support on it is far from within compliance with the standards, I've dumped out the debugging data into Canonical's Launchpad bug tracking system so that we may be able to support some sort of a workaround for the bad ACPI tables in your BIOS, I would hope that you will be part of the solution instead of the problem, alienating customers and telling them to go buy a copy of Windows Vista is not service, your product claims to be ACPI compliant and is not, therefore you are falsely advertising it with features it isn't capable of.

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