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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 20 Sep 2018

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Cory Doctorow

      I am absolutely sure that this framing is accurate, and that the California Farm Bureau, made up of California farmers, took actions that made things worse for California farmers, and I am sure that a non-farmer who lives in London knows all of the relevant details.https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1042858180626112513 …

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      Cory DoctorowVerified account @doctorow
      California farm lobby's sellout to John Deere will cost its members their right to repair https://boingboing.net/2018/09/20/sold-out-by-cfb.html … pic.twitter.com/lnFprYHJSQ
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 20 Sep 2018

      2/ Hayek's "knowledge problem" is Catholic social-con "subsidiarity" is me thinking that Brits don't know what's right for Americans, that Londoners don't know what's right for farmers, and that Cory Doctorow is wrong about almost everything.

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 20 Sep 2018

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Dedicating Ruckus

      3/ yephttps://twitter.com/ded_ruckus/status/1042861484752089089 …

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      Dedicating Ruckus @ded_ruckus
      Replying to @MorlockP
      "right to repair" ends up spilling over into almost all electronics, and ends up basically gutting corps' ability to sell closed-down stuff, plays into Doctorow's tech-freedom angle which I'm sympathetic to, but it makes the "oh, the poor farmers" frame disingenuous
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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 20 Sep 2018

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Dedicating Ruckus

      4/ yephttps://twitter.com/ded_ruckus/status/1042861678327554048 …

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      Dedicating Ruckus @ded_ruckus
      Replying to @ded_ruckus @MorlockP
      p. sure he would not think Thought #1 about tractors or farmers if some legislation about them didn't also fulfill his unrelated goals
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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 20 Sep 2018

      5/ I'm a (hobby) farmer, I'm a tinkerer, I'm the kind of guy who rather than throw away a broken $60 chair from Staples, cuts out 1/8" steel plate, drills holes, breaks out the taps and dies, and fixes it. ...and I ** HATE ** "right to repair".

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 20 Sep 2018

      6/ It's a very marketing savvy term. ...but it's not what it sounds like. What you THINK it means: "I should be allowed to fix things" What it ACTUALLY means: "no one should be allowed to have trade secrets, many business models between consenting adults made illegal"

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 20 Sep 2018

      7/ Here's a very typical business model: * sell base model for $X * sell premium model for $2X It's called price discrimination. It allows a vendor to get extra dollars out of rich customers, and it allows more modest customers to get good value.

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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 20 Sep 2018

      8/ It is mathematically proven that it creates value in the world. Further, it is a matter of human rights that customers and vendors should be free to negotiate contracts as they wish, without Cory Doctorow declaring some of them to be illegal.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 20 Sep 2018

      9/ Example #1: Morlock Publishing selling ebooks for $6, trade paperbacks for $25, hardcovers for $50, limited edition hardcovers for $125, and leather bound hardcovers for $250. Upper middle class people get collectibles, and modest consumers get subsidized (and I get $$$ !)

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 20 Sep 2018

          10/ Example #2: John Deere sells a tractor in three models: * dumb * basic GPS nav * advanced GPS nav with hands free operation modest farmers get a cheap model, rich farmers get bells and whistles. To implement this, perhaps Deere puts the same circuit board in ALL

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 20 Sep 2018

          11/ ...and disables functionality in two of the product lines. Right of Repair means that John Deere has to document their ROMs, let people know the diagnostic codes to turn on and off features. ...which REMOVES your freedom to negotiate a contract w John Deere.

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 20 Sep 2018

          12/ If the marxists like Cory get their way, and Deere is unable to do price discrimination, Deere will either (a) remove the top-end features (b) remove the bottom-end price point (c) redesign the models to use different circuit boards (more expensive)

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 20 Sep 2018

          13/ another business model: selling documentation. "Everyone gets the car for $20k, but the mechanics manuals cost another $2k". Sounds fair to me. (a) docs cost money to generate (b) if mechanics want it, they can pay for it. Business decision / investment. But...

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 20 Sep 2018

          14/ "right to repair" interferes with this. Some variants require firms to write docs that don't even exist yet. What an insane hassle.

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 20 Sep 2018

          15/ So, as is typical with progs, the "right" is no such thing, but is a set of obligations that they create and drop onto someone else, and they are happy to fine or jail anyone who disobeys. They won't kick in doors or levy the fines. They'll use your taxes to pay thugs.

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        1. Christopher Smith‏ @chrylis 20 Sep 2018
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          But here you are tweeting instead!

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        2. TechLibre‏ @NTechlibre 20 Sep 2018
          Replying to @MorlockP

          A business model I support, and applaud. The reason, once a book, I can do whatever I want, read it, use it as a coaster, make a fan fiction RPG. Morlock sells property. John Deere allows no such liberties. They sell contracts and licenses now, not tractors. Caveat empetor.

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        3. TechLibre‏ @NTechlibre 20 Sep 2018
          Replying to @NTechlibre @MorlockP

          The real problem with John Deere is the same as Facebook or Microsoft. Read the EULA now, or cry later. You can't cry fraud when you're an accomplice to a licensing scheme. #tanstaafl

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