FTC defending right-to-repair

[techlists at phpcoderusa.com]

I've watched several of this guy's videos.  One of the things he is 
involved in right-to-repair.



On 2021-05-07 13:07, der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> moin moin,
> 
> "the FTC said manufacturers were, among other things, regularly 
> breaking
> or stretching warranty law, deliberately designing products that are 
> hard
> to fix, keeping repair information secret, using patent and trademark 
> law
> to thwart repair efforts, discouraging independent third-party repairs,
> and using software to lock out changes"
> 
> The FTC can't sue companies, so we won't suddenly get past boot loader
> lockdowns. Still, better for us to have support from the FTC rather 
> than
> manufacturers and data pipe providers to hide behind the FTC.
> 
> https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/07/ftc_repair_report/
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
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