Just a case of minority opression

Just a case of minority opression

Posted Nov 15, 2003 0:51 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: The Belkin router fiasco by torsten
Parent article: The Belkin router fiasco

This is just a case of what we Linux people are quite used to: products built for the majority not being appropriate for the minority.

I really believe this feature is innocuous to 98% of the users of the product. They are interactive users of the web who would see this as pretty much the same thing as an advertising popup.

On the other hand, if you're doing something less ordinary like running an automated process that connects to some http port and does stuff, you might be significantly inconvenienced by getting connected to the wrong http port.

Probably the only thing Belkin didn't count on here, and the only reason it backed down as much as it did, is the bad PR.

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