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It seems it was an oversight on the part of Foxconn: http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org ... ost5458716.
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What is gross is the initial response Foxconn gave to the inquiry about the issue.
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Rotonen wrote:What is gross is the initial response Foxconn gave to the inquiry about the issue.
Yes. That tech should be reevaluated.
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Actually why the heck should they even care? Their revenue comes from Windows users pretty majorly.

If you want to have a moral victory, go and improve the open source alternatives to the point where they actually have a viable market segment. Actually booting on, operating on and fully supporting the machine is a good selling point for most consumers out there. They don't really care how it is done as long as they can achieve what they want to achieve.

And yes, I do know it has a lot to do with market inertia and corporate entities not opening up specifications for hardware.
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It appears it wasn't their fault in the first place:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2307
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/24/286
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