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>One implementation of this right is requiring Microsoft to give me access to the source code Not really, no. There are examples of software being repaired, o
by trasz4 4y ago
>One implementation of this right is requiring Microsoft to give me access to the source code
Not really, no. There are examples of software being repaired, or even completely rebuilt, without access to the original source code - from Falcon BMS to (parts of) Microsoft's own Excel.
- thfuran 4y agoThat there are examples of something being done doesn't mean that it's a practical system. Just saying "Here's a hex editor. Have at it" isn't meaningfully supporting a right to repair.
- singpolyma3 4y agoAnd yet it would be better than the current situation where the hex editor is a copyright infringement.
- thfuran 4y agoIt would be an improvement, but I think it's closer to an update of first-sale doctrine than it is to a meaningfully supported right to repair.
- pabs3 4y agoThere are reasonably good decompilers already, and the right to use them being added to the law would probably lead to improving them.
- mdmglr 4y agoNo doubt. Are you referring to using tools like ida?