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This is a knee-jerk bill written by people who don't understand technology. It specifically calls out glued batteries, for example, and not any other permanent
by ken 9y ago
This is a knee-jerk bill written by people who don't understand technology. It specifically calls out glued batteries, for example, and not any other permanent attachment of any other component. It claims that "operating system", "machine code", "assembly code", and "microcode" are all "synonyms".
I'm all for being able to repair one's own devices (my alarm clock is a 1980's HeathKit that I've saved from an early grave more than once with a soldering iron), but this is a poorly written bill that wouldn't help consumers.
- pm24601 9y agoReally. Enabling consumers repair/hack their own electronics is great.
- tytytytytytytyt 9y agoThis doesn't even appear like it would accomplish that...
- JdeBP 9y agoThe bill says, rather, that the term "embedded software", for the purposes of the act, can be taken to synonymous with terms such as "basic internal operating system", "internal operating system", "machine code", "assembly code", "root code", and "microcode" that one might find used instead. In other words, where it talks about making available any "updates to embedded software" it can be considered to be also talking about making available "updates to microcode" or "updates to the internal operating system" if that's what they are called. Would you like a law that people can avoid by using different terms for things?