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  Re: Linux really costs a _lot_ more than $40  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 1 Nov 2008 20:08:48
Message: <490cef90$1@news.povray.org>
On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:35:43 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> (I resist the urge to be snarky and talk about losing hardware to new
>> drivers.
>> http://fixunix.com/linux/539688-linux-will-destroy-your-hardware.html
>> Pretty funky story there.   ;-)
> 
>   Beta software has bugs. Shocking.

And what's more, it didn't actually "destroy" the hardware, Intel was 
able to work out a fix for the corrupted firmware.

Jim


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