iFixit CEO Launches Open Toshiba Service Guide Scheme

If you use lawyers to hide your manuals, we'll write our own

Kyle Wiens, head of gadget repair service iFixit - an operation best known for its device disassembly efforts - has called on owners of Toshiba laptops to help pen open source repair manuals to make good the computer makers’ closure of an independent Toshiba documentation archive.

Launching Operation Fix Toshiba, Wiens promised to connect owners of unwanted Toshiba kit with folk willing to take it apart and write repair manuals. iFixit staff will work on extending the site’s existing array of Toshiba repair guides too.

The move comes after Toshiba’s Australian wing used lawyers to force blogger Tim Hicks’ to remove Toshiba manuals from his site, Future Proof, which archives documentation for kit to ensure it’s available even after machines have reached the end of their life as products...