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Jacek Poplawski

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-01-10

Posts: 736

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If you are going to buy...

...Foxconn motherboard, read this article first:

http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org … p?t=869249

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: If you are going to buy...

... Wow. I don't think I've ever seen anything quite so retarded in the business world before.

cyclotomic

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From: New York

Registered: 2008-07-08

Posts: 52

Re: If you are going to buy...

Wow, why would a company purposefully alienate part of its user base?

jdhore

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From: NYC

Registered: 2007-08-01

Posts: 156

Re: If you are going to buy...

wow...That's just...wow...I think tomorrow i'm going to go to my local Micro Center and replace every Foxconn mobo in the house (i have 3)

Anonymo

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Registered: 2005-04-07

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Re: If you are going to buy...

My updated cool people list:

1. Batman
2. phrakture
3. Jason Bourne
4. TheAlmightyCthulhu  <------------

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Anonymo

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Registered: 2005-04-07

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Re: If you are going to buy...

wow...That's just...wow...I think tomorrow i'm going to go to my local Micro Center and replace every Foxconn mobo in the house (i have 3)

I alway found that company really suspicious because of their name:  Foxconn

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fox

fox
9.    to deceive or trick.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/con

con4  conned, con·ning,
–adjective
1.    involving abuse of confidence: a con trick.
–verb (used with object)
2.    to swindle; trick: That crook conned me out of all my savings.
3.    to persuade by deception, cajolery, etc.
–noun
4.    a confidence game or swindle.
5.    a lie, exaggeration, or glib self-serving talk: He had a dozen different cons for getting out of paying traffic tickets.

con5
–noun Slang.
a convict.

con6
1.    to strike, hit, or rap (something or someone).
2.    to hammer (a nail or peg).
3.    to beat or thrash a person with the hands or a weapon.

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Zeist

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Registered: 2008-07-04

Posts: 532

Re: If you are going to buy...

This has efficiently placed Foxconn among the brands of products that I will never consider buying, and after I've spread this link around a bit I am sure that the same will be the case for quite a few people around me.

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Re: If you are going to buy...

I never had a good opinion on Foxconn ever since they entered the end user market, this only confirms my opinion on them. No Linux support, no money. Too bad for them.

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KimTjik

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-08-22

Posts: 715

Re: If you are going to buy...

No Linux support, no money. Too bad for them.

Even more so when it's actually a question of not following an industry standard. Maybe it's a result of some other famous operating-system which has a habit of ignore standards, and in this case ACPI.

floke

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Registered: 2007-09-04

Posts: 266

Re: If you are going to buy...

Re-check the original thread - apparently the UK Foxconn rep is on to the case.

Hmmmmm.

Sp4rkR4t

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From: Southampton

Registered: 2008-05-06

Posts: 110

Re: If you are going to buy...

Yeah, but I just find it a bit odd that the supposed uk rep of foxconn says "please ignore my spelling as I'm dyslexic", it just shouts of it being someone having a laugh.

slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

Re: If you are going to buy...

I was ready to give foxconn the benefit of the doubt (provided they fixed it) but after reading that bill gates email where he specifically talks about making "windows only" extensions for ACPI because "they do all the work" and then "linux works great without having to do the work," I can't believe m$ wasn't behind this. Especially since apparently those foxconn mobos are OEM for a lot of big PC sellers that already are in lock step with microslop. how scummy, god i hate m$ more than i can even say.

11010010110

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Registered: 2008-01-14

Posts: 284

Re: If you are going to buy...

People here consume Foxconns in their masses as this is a cheap board and works well in pirated Windows XP

Most have the computer in full on all the time so they dont mind ACPI either

Foxconn does not have really much to lose except the guy's emails. Everyone who does mind of whats inside the computer uses some other board. All the others use Windows anyway.