As you might recall from my previous threat that Fujitsu essentially tells customers of their old products to fuck off when requesting copies of software that was originally distributed with their hardware.
So I overcame the problem and have a working NAS device. But I go to their commercial proprietary app store and get this bullshit:
So even those who have all their software can never install new apps on the NAS device. The perverse injustice here is that the Fujitsu Q700 NAS advertises the ability to use the bittorrent protocol… and that you can schedule a bittorrent process to kick off at midnight, for example. But the bittorrent app is not natively installed. It can only be fetched from Fujitsu’s own app store. But then the motherfuckers pulled the plug on it, probably just after the warrenty ended on their last sold device.
The takeaway: don’t buy Fujitsu.
There needs to be a law that when companies do this, they are required to give a path to root access, so FOSS devs can provide alternative apps, firmware, and OS.
I would actually go further and say that the law should be that any person that releases a software application, if they want patent protection on that software, they have to submit the source code to some sort of international repository.
And that goes for any update or variation as well. And should the business shut down or cease supporting whatever hardware that software works on, then that source code loses its patent protection and becomes public domain.
Can you not install FreeNAS?
Still a shitty thing to do, hopefully Stop Killing Games will extend to all software like this
