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

[sciguy at vex.net]

I don't think that is the point. The point is that third-party repair shops be allowed to do their jobs without getting sued by places like Apple. 

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> From: talk <talk-bounces at gtalug.org> On Behalf Of Alvin Starr via talk
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2019 1:11 PM
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> Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"
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> A while back I took my ASUS phone to ASUS to see about repair.
> 
> Repairing the phone was going to cost me about 2/3 the cost of a new ASUS
> phone.
> 
> Not like the repair of a 20,000 car where the repair cost runs from a few
> hundred to a few thousand.
> 
> I think the right of repair is a good idea but I am not sure now many highly
> integrated products are amenable to cost effective repair.
> 
> On 3/5/19 12:23 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 07:16:52PM -0500, Don Tai via talk 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.
> > Is that because no one wants to or because no one can anymore?
> >
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