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

[Ansar Mohammed]

IMHO, this is a very important issue that the entire community needs to
stand behind.
Please have a look at the CBC documentary to get an idea of what is at
stake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FImwMpA9ENg



On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 7:29 PM Mauro Souza via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> 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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