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Free Software won because almost everyone, especially businesses can benefit from it. who is going to benefit from right to repair besides consumers and small r
by em-bee 2y ago
Free Software won because almost everyone, especially businesses can benefit from it. who is going to benefit from right to repair besides consumers and small repair shops?
- ornornor 2y agoEveryone as well? Lower costs, better looking carbon footprint, longer lifecycles, better secondhand market, more efficient software (if you don’t assume everyone uses a new phone, you design your apps/web apps with a little more care towards performance and battery efficiency), more competition between manufacturers (because it’s not a given that you’ll sell new devices every 2–3 years)…
- hot_gril 2y agoDesigning a very small device to be DIY repairable has a cost too.
- ornornor 2y agoProbably. I don’t think it’s much more than the cost of shrinking everything down and shaving 1/2 mm off your design or engineering a whole protocol, chips, and software to pair components together and implement “features” at the OS level to disable some things if it detects new parts.