Comment 34 for bug 1602888

Just to clarify this for me, because I'm getting kind of lost in reading all the posts, both Ubuntu developers in this thread, and kernel developers in the kernel thread where this issue is reported are more or less blaming this on Dell firmware, am I getting this correctly?

Concerning the Dell certified version of Ubuntu - Dell does not allow other users whose machine did not originally come with it to download, i.e. making it public to download, am I correct?

I also have a question about the i8kutils - does it remedy the issue completely without side effects and is it dangerous to use it? I mean, it's not vendor certified software and it meddles with temperature settings for the fans, so if I really screw up the settings, can I potentially fry my CPU?