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So I admit being pessimistic about actually getting Right to Repair laws passed. Lawmakers keep being told that 'it stifles innovation' and since they often hav
by smush 8y ago
So I admit being pessimistic about actually getting Right to Repair laws passed. Lawmakers keep being told that 'it stifles innovation' and since they often have as limited understanding of technology as I do as to the innards of political wheel-greasing they often fall for that tripe.
Are there any known Right to Repair statutes (US or Int'l) or bills that show signs of life?
- ghaff 8y agoMassachusetts passed Right to Repair as a ballot measure (which Tesla basically flaunts by making manuals extremely expensive to rent). But note that right to repair does not automatically equate with "easy to repair without special tools and knowledge."
- smush 8y ago> But note that right to repair does not automatically equate with "easy to repair without special tools and knowledge." I'm okay with that. I just don't want businesses to be able to deny access to their manuals, threaten to void warranties for 'abuse' for performing an action that their authorized techs do all the time without any adverse effect on the hardware, or remotely kill software used in the hardware because someone replaced some atoms arranged in a less than ideal manner with some other atoms arranged in a more ideal manner without paying the business themselves to do it.
- lightedman 8y agoAnti-tying provisions of the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act.