Ole Juul
Veteran Member
It was a toss-up whether to post this in General Vintage or Rants, so I put it here.
An Australian blogger who posts repair manuals for various computers has received a warning from Toshiba.
Personally, I feel lucky that I am here to report this, and you are not seeing a picture of my charred remains in the news after I tried to fix a Toshiba. However, they do have a number of other concerns, such as this being proprietary information, limiting who can see the manuals, and of course, the fact that they are copyrighted. Because of this, the blogger was forced to not publish Toshiba manuals.
So, off-line is the bottom line.You can read the rest of the story on the blog which is called Future proof.
An Australian blogger who posts repair manuals for various computers has received a warning from Toshiba.
“We are concerned that by providing the manuals to unqualified person [sic] you may be endangering their well-being”.
Personally, I feel lucky that I am here to report this, and you are not seeing a picture of my charred remains in the news after I tried to fix a Toshiba. However, they do have a number of other concerns, such as this being proprietary information, limiting who can see the manuals, and of course, the fact that they are copyrighted. Because of this, the blogger was forced to not publish Toshiba manuals.
Dell, HP and Lenovo are three companies that have made the decision to allow us the privilege of accessing their repair manuals anyway – a decision that is 100% in the interests of their customers, and in their own, as people are more likely to buy a product they know they can easily fix if it goes awry.
So, off-line is the bottom line.You can read the rest of the story on the blog which is called Future proof.