On Wednesday 29 October 2003 01:36 pm, robin wrote:
Bryan Phinney wrote: If the user is not prepared to accept the responsibility,
they should wait for those who are. Trying to stay on the bleeding edge and expecting no problems is simply asinine and stupid and there is no one capable of protecting someone from their own stupidity. Case in point, LG.
Since when is a stable release "bleeding edge"? Bleeding edge is Cooker. Bleeding edge is running alpha apps. Bleeding edge is using a development kernel.
The patch in question wasn't 'Bleeding edge' or experimental (alpha). It simply enabled packet writing to CD drives. A feature now disabled in the 'fix' (kernel 2.4.22-21mdk) already available, and various floppy images soon coming. A shame from my point of view. M$ has long encouraged and supported sloppy non compliant hardware (and irresponsible users).
Now it seems even Linux users have to, or are willing to accept this, and demand that their favorite distro does the same. People with junk fake-Cdroms are now safe, the rest of us have to do without out of the box CD packet writing to accommodate the ones who don't want to be bothered with knowing their hardware. That think cheap junk non compliant hardware is just fine, an should be protected by others. IOW's back-asswards
I think you're being a little unfair to the people who bought LG - how were they to know it was junk hardware?
Just to prevent any further misunderstanding, I _do_ think LG are the guilty party here. I don't know how the law stands, but since the last time I looked, they were advertising Linux compatibility, there might be grounds for suing here. I'm also _not_ encouraging irresponsibility - I just don't think a user expecting hardware not to blow up is irresponsible. Hell, I use an LG drive at work (it's a writer, fortunately).
Sir Robin
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