> You do realise that we had right to repair in the 80's? No we didn’t. In the 80s a lot of stuff was simply easier to repair, in part because you had less stu

> You do realise that we had right to repair in the 80's? No we didn’t. In the 80s a lot of stuff was simply easier to repair, in part because you had less stuff to begin with. You’re still free to repair whatever you want, but of course nowadays things are so complex that I’d require you an insurmountable amount of work. There hasn’t been any legal change, it’s just that the cost of repairs has gone up. > If I have to repair my toaster, and it contains a microcontroller, then I can buy that microcontroller but not the firmware. More to my point. Why firmware vendor X can’t enforce copyright but Google can? We either have right to repair and no copyright (at least for code), or we have copyright for code and no right to repair.