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
