Do you really mean what you say or did Asus pay you for this ?!
So if you buy a car and then you realize the windows can't open or if they do
it prevents the lights from working we should tell you "hey you should have
searched better, so bad for you !", is that how you think ?
As far as you should remember, computer from any brand have quite always been
able to use several boot options, even today most of them are still able to do
it, even those with external optical drives. And no Asus "decide" that their
computer will still give the ability to set this boot list but if you do it
will prevent the PC from booting because their BIOS can't handle it... how can
you consider such a thing not being a problem ?! And if it was not why would
Asus put the blame on FreeDOS compatibility with their BIOS !?
What computers are concerned : all of those with this BIOS, it means probably
all the ROG laptops if they are all built on the same base. And no matter if
it's a function our life depend on or not, that question should not even be
asked, or I should say "hey, your blu-ray drive doesn't work and some bug
prevents you to check your facebook account? Who cares, it won't make you loose
much money, so don't complain".
Seriously, when you buy something of some kind you expect it to work the way
every other thing of this kind is working, or at least it should mention "sorry
our bios is crap and can't handle more than one boot device, don't set a second
boot device, we won't use it anyway and all you'll get is an error message".
> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 00:23:19 -0500
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FW: FreeDOS compatibility issue according to
> Asus
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Teddy T. <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > We'd just like an "official" confirmation if FreeDOS can really cause this
> > kind of problem, and if not then we'll use it against Asus in a trial, and
> > prevent Asus from sueing FreeDOS.
>
> I'm no lawyer, and I'll admit to not fully understanding the problem
> here, but it's somewhat unlikely (as always) that Asus is at fault
> here, and even more unlikely that you can prove it. Unless they
> (directly and intentionally) gave you false information or non-working
> hardware/software, then you probably don't have a case.
>
> If these machines weren't custom-ordered, and you didn't have an
> explicit contract mentioning that you needed this specific
> functionality working, then someone will probably say: "Caveat
> emptor." (They will probably say you should've researched your needs
> better.) Unless you were told that missing or buggy functionality
> worked without any problems or that it would fulfill your needs,
> you're probably just going to be ignored or given a (partial rebate)
> coupon or some other trifle. How much damage are we talking about
> here? How many machines are affected that you (and yours) personally
> purchased? How badly do you need this working (e.g. for earning your
> livelihood)?
>
> I'm somewhat naive, so I'm surprised that literally anybody
> (commercially) uses FreeDOS for anything. Not that it can't do stuff,
> of course, but most people (exclusively) use Windows or (not rarely
> but much less often) Linux. If your machines were meant to run these
> modern OSes exclusively (and, more importantly, still fully work under
> those OSes), it's probably more than enough to fulfill the purchase.
> Seriously, unless you custom-ordered these or were given explicit
> instructions otherwise, I don't think you have much of a case. You may
> have to just chalk it up to experience and move on.
>
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