Blame Red Octane for the Les Paul not working, Not Harmonix

[VixDiesel]

as quoted by harmonix(via kotaku, harmonix's quote in italics):

Rock Band's controller compatibility was a touch confusing prior to the game's release. Now that it's out...still confusing! Despite earlier reports indicating they would get along like a house on fire, it turns out the wireless Les Paul guitar from PS3 version of Guitar Hero III doesn't work with Rock Band. Anyone hoping to get some guitar and bass action in before the individual instruments are released next year, sorry. No. "But they can fix it in a patch", I hear you whimper, "right?". Right? No.

Harmonix have issued a statement regarding the matter, which reads:

Harmonix develops and bases all of our games, guitars and other peripherals on open standards established by platform manufacturers such as Microsoft and Sony. Rock Band is no exception and supports an open controller standard. Guitar controllers are like any other standard game controllers--the controller sends a signal back to the game depending on the buttons you push. If a third party game controller is based on open standards, then it should work with Rock Band as well. If certain controllers do not work with Rock Band, questions about those controllers should be directed to the peripheral manufacturer. In addition, we welcome any 3rd party software that wishes to support Rock Band guitars. If a 3rd party guitar / music game does not support the Rock Band guitar controller, questions regarding this should be directed to the game manufacturer.

In other words, blame Red Octane, not us.

[Gamemakerman]

I still find it kinda funny that the RB controller wont work with GH2 or GH3, when Harmonix stated that they are using the same "open standards" as back then. So it really seems to me that the whole Stratocaster problem is really something Harmonix, MTV or EA is responsible for, not Red Octane. The GH3 controller follows the SAME control scheme as GH2 and that scheme also works with Rock Band. It seems more to me that the problem isnt at Red Octane at all, it belongs to those who made the Stratocaster.

So i'm more seeing this as a problem with Harmonix, MTV or EA = Whoever is in charge of making the guitar.

Edit: This thing was more about the Stratocaster thing with GH2-GH3, then the Les Poul not working on the PS3. But i think the problem with the PS3 is that the Les Poul was based around the idea of the SixAxis controller, then a new device (explains the problems in Rock Band), while the Stratocaster one is based on some other solution.

So in the end its not either ones direct fault, its more a problem with them not having a unified standard.