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Bah. Assuming the fault was with LG's firmware it is undeniably LG's fault. I say assuming because the above article update makes this unclear. Your logic though is a little backwards. I'm assuming some of these drives were very likely out before Mandrake 9.2, I believe the article says the suspect code in the kernel was introduced 8/15 and most likely Mandrake 9.2 was introduced after that<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:P. So your saying that all hardware companies should have to constantly retest their hardware on every software/hardware combination available.. even for just Linux this is a somewhat unrealistic task considering the frequency of releases and available (optional) patches. Now if you pay attention in class there are many more open source operating systems beyond Linux so should companies "embrace" open source your going to have to learn how to share. There are also several different platforms which support IDE CD-ROM drives. The variables are limitless and in an open-source world it falls upon the users to test the code. It may not be fair but its the only way things are going to get done. Mandrake needs to accept some responsibility and recall the products they've published.

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