Comparing closed firmware with general purpose OS is bogus

Posted Jan 27, 2007 22:54 UTC (Sat) by pascal.martin (guest, #2995)
In reply to: Comparing closed firmware with general purpose OS is bogus by hummassa
Parent article: LCA: Andrew Tanenbaum on creating reliable systems

Thanks. My mother is 80 years old, and never used a computer.

I am not sure I want to tell her to upgrade the DVD firmware. I found that not using any menu worked. So my DVDs now behaves like old VHS tapes :-)

The point is: DVD firmware hell makes the original claim ("DVD just work") look silly.