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If I buy a thing, I actually own it, which is not the same as what, say, John Deere wants to pretend is the case. A number of manufacturers are being assholes about their physical products (if it has software in it, they own it in perpetuity).
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I’m a radical centrist on this: parts and labor should bear market price, of course. How to talk to the various computers? That should be available.
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I don't see why they just don't repeal the part of the DMCA that enables manufacturers to do this in the first place.
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They already make spare parts it's just called parts. They just can't block purchase of parts. This is pro-freedom and stands in defiance of growing hardware-as-a-service parasites.
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Where I'm from, farmers tend to own semi trucks to haul grain; that often have the same computerization & emissions technology as the similar year >75 HP farm machines that put up the crop but somehow I doubt that e.g. Peterbilt and Mack are next
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Cost of ownership and life cycle cost more important than purchase price
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For decades people could repair their own vehicles, appliances, electronics & equipment before developments like proprietary firmware allowed companies to manipulate the situation. Companies largely maintained this paradigm by spending millions in lobbying. Is that 'freedom'?
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Im fine with rightbto repair l, but not sure about the forcing companies to make spare parts.
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