I am a general IP abolitionist, but the real solution to the problem of source code lost forever is in the domain of right to repair. Since the advent of softwa

I am a general IP abolitionist, but the real solution to the problem of source code lost forever is in the domain of right to repair. Since the advent of software the right to repair, which used to be respected for almost anything you could buy, has been completely abandoned. Requiring access to the sources to modify code you buy (or in a post-IP world, receive in binary form) would go a long way to stopping the software culture death of source code never being released and rotting on hard drives until its irretrievable. The problem is the current dominant culture is either completely apathetic or actually hostile to right to repair for software. Its why I say "I hope its only 20XX" because I don't see the path to fixing that mindset. That being said, it is important to distinguish that while I spoke about how future historians will see both draconian IP and the lack of right to repair as barbaric and antiquated, they are distinct but related concepts.