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Sure but its fine for individual parts to fail if the manufacturer will repair/replace that part. Spares of easily user-replaceable parts can even be included w
by bfdm 5y ago
Sure but its fine for individual parts to fail if the manufacturer will repair/replace that part. Spares of easily user-replaceable parts can even be included with the product, like spare fuses often were.
It's not necessary to achieve zero failures, but it creates incentives for manufactures to use higher quality parts.
I am supportive of setting minimum lifespans for certain classes of products and to expwct manufacturers to be liable for that performance.
- afiori 5y agoit is not the main point but requiring the manufacturers to repair an item after 50 years cannot be done. the factory that built that refrigerator heat pump from the 70' is unlikely to still be making it. as of today it would be already a big improvement if the was a law saying: "if a part is no longer produced or sold by the IP owner then it is legal to recreate and sell clones of that part"
- southerntofu 5y ago> the factory that built that refrigerator heat pump from the 70' is unlikely to still be making it. Yes but why? Why do we have 400 different models of heat pump for every fridge out there? I can understand that once every decade or so a new tech comes out that's worthy of developing parts from. But even then the new parts could be retrofitted into existing designs. > "if a part is no longer produced or sold by the IP owner then it is legal to recreate and sell clones of that part" That would be a huge improvement. What would be an even better improvement would be to abolish so-called IP entirely and to mandate actual durability for all parts sold. Think about lightbulbs: the parts/socket are standard (no IP involved), every factory can produce them, and yet we still have crazy bad durability.