On a site called Hacker News, I'm surprised to see so much criticism of a right to repair.
What is hacking, if not the act of digging into the guts of a mechanism or device?
What is open source, but providing the ability for anyone to read, modify, and rebuild their software?
I'd expect nothing less than full-throated support for the right to dig into things.
Sadly, it seems that many here are more supportive of the right to lock things. Perhaps because they are employed in the rent-seeking parts of the industry that want everything to be a subscription?
"It is very difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on not understanding it".
[edit: to be sure, I understand that surface mount technology, adhesive bonding, direct-soldered-in batteries, etc., are genuinely useful advances, and make certain component-level repairs at least impractical. I would not propose to require that these be undone. But, we should be able to have whatever level of access is physically possible, without unnecessary locks the perform no useful user function, so we can try whatever we want. Anything less is surrendering ourselves to rent-seeking. ]
What is hacking, if not the act of digging into the guts of a mechanism or device?
What is open source, but providing the ability for anyone to read, modify, and rebuild their software?
I'd expect nothing less than full-throated support for the right to dig into things.
Sadly, it seems that many here are more supportive of the right to lock things. Perhaps because they are employed in the rent-seeking parts of the industry that want everything to be a subscription?
"It is very difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on not understanding it".
[edit: to be sure, I understand that surface mount technology, adhesive bonding, direct-soldered-in batteries, etc., are genuinely useful advances, and make certain component-level repairs at least impractical. I would not propose to require that these be undone. But, we should be able to have whatever level of access is physically possible, without unnecessary locks the perform no useful user function, so we can try whatever we want. Anything less is surrendering ourselves to rent-seeking. ]