On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 18:54 -0600, Reuben Martin wrote:
> Don't be so hard on Plextor (or RME for that matter) Both have been
> quite open providing developer kits and specs for OSS devs for many of
> their products. Just because they may choose not to for some of their
> products doesn't make them evil. It's their product and they can do
> what they want with it. If you don't like it, buy something else.
>
The plextor situation is pretty bad - certain SCSI commands are
encrypted to make reverse engineering them a DMCA violation. If this is
the future of hardware we are f**ked - it won't be possible to run Linux
on a PC in 5 years. It's VERY important to let Plextor know that they
will be punished in the marketplace for this type of behavior.
Lee
Received on Sun Feb 26 20:21:46 2006
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