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This is only for farmers and farm equipment. I'll take a win when I get one, but do we have a right to repair our property or not? I think we do, and a governme

This is only for farmers and farm equipment. I'll take a win when I get one, but do we have a right to repair our property or not? I think we do, and a government gracefully giving us some of our rights is not good enough.

ddtaylor 4y ago
We just need to take this same success and copy/paste it to other industries enough times until everyone gets tired of doing N different legislation and a more abstract and widespread bill is created and passed. Farm equipment was a good first win because the opposition isn't as big as some other industries. It's relatively easy to get everyone on board with helping farmers and compared to say Apple or Google companies like John Deer don't have as deep of pockets. We probably won't have a lot of success jumping directly to one of the more difficult markets like phones or cars, since the opposition there is strong, well connected and well funded. The next battle will likely be won over a market that is bigger than farm equipment but smaller than phones or cars in general. I could see kitchen appliances, washesr/dryers or other equipment in that space being a good target. It would be relatively easy to motivate a base of people to care about it, because everyone has these appliances, and the opposition is fragmented and not as well funded in lobbying.
- pabs3 4y ago
  In one of the earlier threads about this bill, someone said that doing the bill once per type of product is easier because you split your set of opponents up into smaller groups. So just going small bills forever might be better.
ip26 4y ago
Step by step. John Deere is allegedly one of the most flagrant abusers of repairability, so it’s the right place to start.
MisterTea 4y ago
This sets precedence for future cases. This is a good win no matter how small or obscure people want to think it is.

ddtaylor 4y ago

We just need to take this same success and copy/paste it to other industries enough times until everyone gets tired of doing N different legislation and a more abstract and widespread bill is created and passed. Farm equipment was a good first win because the opposition isn't as big as some other industries. It's relatively easy to get everyone on board with helping farmers and compared to say Apple or Google companies like John Deer don't have as deep of pockets. We probably won't have a lot of success jumping directly to one of the more difficult markets like phones or cars, since the opposition there is strong, well connected and well funded. The next battle will likely be won over a market that is bigger than farm equipment but smaller than phones or cars in general. I could see kitchen appliances, washesr/dryers or other equipment in that space being a good target. It would be relatively easy to motivate a base of people to care about it, because everyone has these appliances, and the opposition is fragmented and not as well funded in lobbying.

pabs3 4y ago
In one of the earlier threads about this bill, someone said that doing the bill once per type of product is easier because you split your set of opponents up into smaller groups. So just going small bills forever might be better.

ip26 4y ago

Step by step. John Deere is allegedly one of the most flagrant abusers of repairability, so it’s the right place to start.

MisterTea 4y ago

This sets precedence for future cases. This is a good win no matter how small or obscure people want to think it is.