<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">IMHO, this is a very important issue that the entire community needs to stand behind.<div>Please have a look at the CBC documentary to get an idea of what is at stake.</div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FImwMpA9ENg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FImwMpA9ENg</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 7:29 PM Mauro Souza via talk <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org">talk@gtalug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Not you, not me, but people do. Like I never ever wrote a kernel module, but people did and this very list is thankful for all that people.<div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto">John Deere and its customers are on a war, because they buy the gigantic machines and have to pay a fortune to JD send a technician, plug in a laptop, and go home. They cannot even know what is wrong. People reverse engineering the firmware are being sued and fined.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It's not for we to repair, but to someone else. </div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 4, 2019, 21:17 Don Tai via talk <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org" target="_blank">talk@gtalug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">who repairs anything these days? I don't know anyone else, besides myself that is curious enough to even open the case. Or use a multimeter. Or sewing machine. Repair is a fringe, hippie thing now.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 16:59, o1bigtenor via talk <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">talk@gtalug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 2:27 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk<br>
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> This is a private member's bill so it is unlikely to pass.<br>
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> <<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/what-on-earth-newsletter-right-to-repair-styrofoam-1.5037697" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/what-on-earth-newsletter-right-to-repair-styrofoam-1.5037697</a>><br>
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> <<a href="https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-42/session-1/bill-72" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-42/session-1/bill-72</a>><br>
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Maybe if enough of the bozos were woken up?<br>
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Dee<br>
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