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.

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sneurlax 2 hours 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…

	▲	CamperBob2 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Not only that, but if you were to point Astra, Argon, or Opus at their patents and tell it, "Find some prior art that will invalidate these claims", I suspect the odds of success would be better than even. See Dan Gelbart's recent video on that very subject: https://youtu.be/v5d8nwgiSYI?si=iM9AFZiRTjxu4OuZ

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nicce an hour 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.