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Lawyers who make these decisions are so risk averse in my experience they'd still probably insist on it being nonmodifiable.
by jcalvinowens 10mo ago
Lawyers who make these decisions are so risk averse in my experience they'd still probably insist on it being nonmodifiable.
- atq2119 10mo agoSure, which is why right to repair laws are so important. I understand this discussion as being about how society should deal with it, not how you could try to make the argument internal to a company.
- jcalvinowens 10mo agoRight, I'm saying I don't think codifying limitations on liability in law will be effective, because it probably wouldn't be absolute enough to satisfy the lawyers. You need a law that actually says "the user must be free to modify the device".
- account42 10mo agoThey don't seem to be too risk averse about misusing free software though.