alt Hacker NewsWould it be feasible for a driver patch to be shared via e.g. an anonymous torrent, with a checksum (to certify authenticity) held somewhere more reliable, like GitHub?
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binkHN • last Thursday at 2:07 AM
Post the patch in a country that doesn't care? I remember OpenBSD used to do something similar with encryption to get around US laws.
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Sounds like what we used to go through years ago with sound editors that had to have a separate button for downloading and inserting the MP3 encoder because the Fraunhofer license prohibited it from being directly distributed with the software.