EU parliament passes all points of the "right to repair" legislation
by zeebra from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5B7TE)
I'm unaware of the exact details, but I have heard about the basics about "right to repair" movements, and I think this is a great thing for consumers and users of products. It's in a way anti-fascist too.
By that I mean, companies already have way too much influence, and they seem to be able to control way too many things. Here the foot is put down and said, consumers are more important than companies, and you have to do what the consumers want, and they want to be able to repair and have control of their products that they buy.
The issue as whole is inherently complex, and I don't know what kind of regulations this will implement in terms of forcing producers to use certain methods in their production, which allows rather than denies repairability. But I've also heard previously that EU countries want to force producers to keep making and selling spare parts of their devices for x amount of time, which is also a good thing. Because sometimes without the right parts you can't fix the products.
Furthermore say chipped products that verifies other components is an example where you cannot change the parts in a product, even though it is technically possible, the main product refuses to accept a perfectly compatible part to to the incorrect "serial number" or otherwise verified part.
My hope is that this also opens up the market for more production of components for products, and that this new law denies companies forcing consumers to only use their parts in the product, as for example a replacement component.
Anyways, I just thought it was right to mention it on this forum, and perhaps some people have greater knowledge about the whole right to repair movement and the specific EU implementation of this. It's also interesting because of forces producers to provide "open documentation" about products to independent repair professionals and owners of the product, which is somewhat relevant to the free software movement, in that it is open documentation for hardware.
I just thought it was good and interesting this passed, and I'm interested in learning more.
By that I mean, companies already have way too much influence, and they seem to be able to control way too many things. Here the foot is put down and said, consumers are more important than companies, and you have to do what the consumers want, and they want to be able to repair and have control of their products that they buy.
The issue as whole is inherently complex, and I don't know what kind of regulations this will implement in terms of forcing producers to use certain methods in their production, which allows rather than denies repairability. But I've also heard previously that EU countries want to force producers to keep making and selling spare parts of their devices for x amount of time, which is also a good thing. Because sometimes without the right parts you can't fix the products.
Furthermore say chipped products that verifies other components is an example where you cannot change the parts in a product, even though it is technically possible, the main product refuses to accept a perfectly compatible part to to the incorrect "serial number" or otherwise verified part.
My hope is that this also opens up the market for more production of components for products, and that this new law denies companies forcing consumers to only use their parts in the product, as for example a replacement component.
Anyways, I just thought it was right to mention it on this forum, and perhaps some people have greater knowledge about the whole right to repair movement and the specific EU implementation of this. It's also interesting because of forces producers to provide "open documentation" about products to independent repair professionals and owners of the product, which is somewhat relevant to the free software movement, in that it is open documentation for hardware.
I just thought it was good and interesting this passed, and I'm interested in learning more.