Steve Wozniak speaks on Right to Repair [video]
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Re: Steve Wozniak speaks on Right to Repair [video]
#2Am I the only believing it should be a free market, where each company follows the strategy it prefers?
Let the market decide if repairability is desired or not. If customers really want it, certainly there will be companies offering it.
Much better to have millions voting with their money and purchases than a few bureaucrats deciding how they believe things should be.
Re: Steve Wozniak speaks on Right to Repair [video]
#3Am I the only believing it should be a free market, where each company follows the strategy it prefers? Let the market decide if repairability is desired or not. If customers really want it, certainly there will be companies offering it. Much better to have millions voting with their money and purchases than a few bureaucrats deciding how they believe things should be.
1) Electronics manufacturing tends to consolidate which results in no market. We went almost 10 years without a single company producing a phone with a GPU that had open source drivers for example
2) They're only asking that companies not make it legally impossible or use software to prevent people from buying and replacing components. IMO the only reason you would do that is to force people to throw away broken devices.
Re: Steve Wozniak speaks on Right to Repair [video]
#4Am I the only believing it should be a free market, where each company follows the strategy it prefers? Let the market decide if repairability is desired or not. If customers really want it, certainly there will be companies offering it. Much better to have millions voting with their money and purchases than a few bureaucrats deciding how they believe things should be.
For a European the above statement sounds so strange, alsmost fictional like.
I thought that we have already established that a truly free market does not exist.
Re: Steve Wozniak speaks on Right to Repair [video]
#5Am I the only believing it should be a free market, where each company follows the strategy it prefers? Let the market decide if repairability is desired or not. If customers really want it, certainly there will be companies offering it. Much better to have millions voting with their money and purchases than a few bureaucrats deciding how they believe things should be.
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Re: Steve Wozniak speaks on Right to Repair [video]
#6Am I the only believing it should be a free market, where each company follows the strategy it prefers? Let the market decide if repairability is desired or not. If customers really want it, certainly there will be companies offering it. Much better to have millions voting with their money and purchases than a few bureaucrats deciding how they believe things should be.
The issue for me with letting the market decide is that for the general population they only discover the reparability of a product after they have purchased it.
Re: Steve Wozniak speaks on Right to Repair [video]
#7Am I the only believing it should be a free market, where each company follows the strategy it prefers? Let the market decide if repairability is desired or not. If customers really want it, certainly there will be companies offering it. Much better to have millions voting with their money and purchases than a few bureaucrats deciding how they believe things should be.
For a European the above statement sounds so strange, alsmost fictional like. I thought that we have already established that a truly free market does not exist.
Here here!
Re: Steve Wozniak speaks on Right to Repair [video]
#8Am I the only believing it should be a free market, where each company follows the strategy it prefers? Let the market decide if repairability is desired or not. If customers really want it, certainly there will be companies offering it. Much better to have millions voting with their money and purchases than a few bureaucrats deciding how they believe things should be.
If you want a truly free market you need to abolish patents, trademarks, DRM and a lot of other laws as well. How else are other companies free to compete or consumers free to choose? The current market does not exist in a vacuum.
Re: Steve Wozniak speaks on Right to Repair [video]
#9Am I the only believing it should be a free market, where each company follows the strategy it prefers? Let the market decide if repairability is desired or not. If customers really want it, certainly there will be companies offering it. Much better to have millions voting with their money and purchases than a few bureaucrats deciding how they believe things should be.
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