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From: Bill Gates
Subject: ACPI Extensions

One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn’t try and make the “ACPI” extensions somehow Windows specific.

It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work.

Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me.

Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not the others even if they are open.

Or maybe we could patent something related to this.

Vun hei, via OSNews.

An da wonneren ech mech wann ACPI am Joer 2007 nach oft Schwieregkeete mécht. Et ass zwar en dokumentéierte Standard, mee leider konnt MS rëm hir üblech Praktiken ongehënnert duerchsetzen: e Standard iwwerhuelen awer eng feelerhaft Implementation schreiwen. Resultat: d’Majoritéit vun de BIOSen ass net standard-konform, mee ënner Windows fonktionnéiert et trotzdem.

Update: Et muss een allerdings och soen dass d’ACPI-Spezifikatiounen net grad kleng sinn an och relativ komplex. Wéi ëmmer ass de Linus och hei relativ “outspoken”:

Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we’re kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce. (Quell)

The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at any point pretty damn ugly. And the fact that MB vendors don’t test it with anything else than Windows (and sometimes you wonder whether they do even that) doesn’t help. (Quell)