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Love Louis myself. Very bright guy, great work, honest. What puzzles me is how can anybody not be sure about the right to repair.
by kwanbix 5y ago
Love Louis myself. Very bright guy, great work, honest.
What puzzles me is how can anybody not be sure about the right to repair.
- jmull 5y agoSome bad and crazy ideas are attached to that label. Also, some perfectly reasonable ones. I’m not sure about “right to repair” because I never know which ones we’re talking about.
- 0xcde4c3db 5y agoOn paper, you already have the right to repair things that you own. However, it's hard to materially ensure the right to repair without regulating the market to ensure availability of replacement parts and schematics, ban certain classes of security mechanism, mandate a certain level of openness for manufacturing/diagnostic/recovery software, and so on. A lot of people see any initiative shaped like this (cf. net neutrality, product safety regulations) as little more than an excuse for government overreach, and even supporters can have various concerns about the laws/regulations being worded or implemented in a way that inadvertently ends up doing more harm than good.