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It could be argued that not being able to boot alternate software, which might be necessary to diagnose the hardware, goes against the right to repair.
by trasz 4y ago
It could be argued that not being able to boot alternate software, which might be necessary to diagnose the hardware, goes against the right to repair.
- pengaru 4y ago> It could be argued that not being able to boot alternate software, which might be necessary to diagnose the hardware, goes against the right to repair. We really need to amend Right to Repair with explicit concepts WRT programmable devices. If the software/firmware isn't strictly immutable (think a ROM in a microwave or fancy digital scale or thermometer type thing), the owner should have an ensured and reasonably facilitated Right to Reprogram (perhaps with additional clauses regarding reproducibility, i.e. ensuring owner's ability to reproduce the original mutable state as delivered at first-sale).