Also, food for thought: this means that any effective legal solutions to these problems in the hardware world could probably also be applied to solve those same

Also, food for thought: this means that any effective legal solutions to these problems in the hardware world could probably also be applied to solve those same problems in the software world. The "right to repair" movement, for example, seems on the surface to be closely analogous to freedom 1 of the Free Software Foundation's four essential freedoms[1]. [1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms