[GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

[Mauro Souza]

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.

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.

It's not for we to repair, but to someone else.

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019, 21:17 Don Tai via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 16:59, o1bigtenor via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 2:27 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
>> <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > This is a private member's bill so it is unlikely to pass.
>> >
>> > <
>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/what-on-earth-newsletter-right-to-repair-styrofoam-1.5037697
>> >
>> >
>> > <
>> https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-42/session-1/bill-72
>> >
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>> Maybe if enough of the bozos were woken up?
>>
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