Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/44631802

Fujitsu are motherfuckers.

What I recall from the warez scene decades past was that the latest games and apps were traded all over the place and always easy to get. But the sort of media where protectionism is the least justified (e.g. proprietary but gratis) was rare and hard to find, as it was generally less interesting.

When it comes to things like hardware drivers, these things should be more openly pirated. Would Fujitsu sue someone who pirates their hardware drivers? Unlikely, because the negative publicity would backfire and the embarrassment would cost them more.

Ironically, I cannot find the software of the OEM CD for a Fujitsu NAS.

Linux drivers generally

Targus makes an unofficial linux driver for their docking station. The driver is very much needed because the docking station embeds a graphics card that linux does not normally find. At the moment there is not much problem because Targus still distributes the driver. But what happens when they decide to stop? The Targus driver also has shitty packaging (a bash script with a blob embedded inside the script). WTF. In principle, this thing should be repackaged more properly for a distro like Debian (in a non-free repo). And it should be done before Targus decides to pull the plug on everyone.

There already is a non-free Debian repo for drivers. They have non-free licensing but the producers of them apparently permit distribution. What about drivers that need distribution without permission?