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It's Repair Day: No One Should Be Punished for "Contempt of Business Model"
Repair is one of the secret keys to a better life. Repairs keep our gadgets in use longer (saving our pocketbooks) and divert e-waste from landfills or toxic recycling processes (saving our planet). Repair is an engine of community prosperity: when you get your phone screen fixed at your corner repair shop, your money goes to a locally owned small business (my daughter and the phone screen guy's daughter go to the same school and he always tut-tuts over the state of my chipped and dented phone at parent-teacher nights).
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A great read. One other point they omitted (or at least I didn't notice it anywhere) is the point that once people buy things, they have ownership of it, which means they should be free to modify it in any way.
I think this will be a boon for open-source devices. Anyone who cares about this sort of thing will be more likely to switch to open-source.
I totally agree!