Synaptics: “Look what you made me do to you!”

Open source community "Look what you made us do":

DisplayLink on the driver side just compresses frames to send them over USB.

It would be interesting to analyse if Synaptics haven't stolen code from open source ffmpeg or VLC to do the compression.

	▲	sneurlax an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I own two of their devices and some of the decomp fairies flittering through the gaming industry might just take a visit to their stack for some internal prodding…
	▲	nicce 30 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Maybe it is time to run a friendly LLM and claim to be worried citizen who is seeking relief by reversing the firmware and excluding GPL lisence violations from their nightmares.

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hnlmorg 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I know, right!

“You are stealing our ideas! But we won’t tell you which ones unless you pay us”

In any other domain this would be called a protection racket.

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Xirdus 41 minutes ago | parent [-]

Not really, all of law works that way. Everybody is allowed to demand pretty much anything from anybody for any reason, and include anything in any contract they're party of regardless of legality of any of the demands. It's the other party's responsibility to know which of these are legally valid and invalid.

	▲	p_l 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That's not universal, and it's why certain terms are nearly never brought to court because everyone knows they will be laughed out and then they will have to change lots of EULAs for regionally illegal claims