I stopped buying overpriced Sony tech sometime ago, about 10 years ago. After I bought a Vaio from them and they couldn't even provide proper drivers for it on their website. How difficult is it for a company to provide some drivers on their own website? When it came to deciding between a PS3 or XBox, we bought a Xbox.

My Sony purchases since then have been some CDRs (on sale) and an auto time setting alarm clock (couldn't find any other, and I need one that day).

These driver problems on laptops aren't uncommon, specially regarding graphics card drivers.

Never had any problems with Toshiba laptops.

> Ugh. Fuck Sony - I'm used to anti-hacker attitudes from companies but this takes it to a new level. Not only have they decided to sue someone for doing something entirely reasonable to his own hardware (this after Sony retroactively removed advertised features), they are running a dirty campaign of defamation and mud-slinging.

Which is surprising... how? Sony has been a pretty crummy company for at least 15 years, and actively anti-people for a decade if not more. This is just the latest episode, but I'm interested in why you were still supporting them before this.

Being anti-hacker is pretty standard for just about any technology company these days - Motorola and HTC lock down their Android phones and prevent you from installing custom ROMs. Apple is an obvious culprit. It is in fact downright rare for a company to make their products hacker-friendly.

So being hacker-hostile has been a default state for a good long while, and the truly open alternatives are few and far between (OpenMoko? What a joke), and TBH there's a certain amount of closedness I can live with.

There's a difference between that and suing the hackers though. There's even a difference between that and defaming them and draggin them through the mud. This is new.