Without right to repair we throw away the first two "R"s in reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Unfortunately right to repair allows competitors including patent ignorers to duplicate, deceive, and dilute. Look at wireless earbuds in a rechargable jellybean case, anyone remember the first company to build them? You can find a hundred knockoffs.
Right to repair is great for consumers and businesses will need to be more ruthless and secret to survive.
> Unfortunately right to repair allows competitors including patent ignorers to duplicate, deceive, and dilute. Look at wireless earbuds in a rechargable jellybean case, anyone remember the first company to build them? You can find a hundred knockoffs.
What does that have to do with RtR? We have endless knockoffs today, as-is, with nothing but cheap manufacturing and copycat products; even if RtR lowered the bar to reverse engineering (which is possible but I'm skeptical that the effect will be significant), make more blatant ripoffs that happen to have slightly better internals?
> Right to repair is great for consumers and businesses will need to be more ruthless and secret to survive.
Or we could legally force it and carry on in public.
I believe it will. This is not a rejection of right to repair. Farmers with tractors they cannot fix and electronics in landfills outweigh the cost to business, but it is troublesome. A patent industry paradigm shift must happen, perhaps shifting the burden to pay to Amazon, Walmart and other retailers when they sell knock offs which violate patents.
Who cares about the 'original' earbud makers? Even if everyone copies each other, someone will stand up and innovate in order to sell and survive. It's a natural occurrence.
They aren't scare quotes tho. They're fairly regularly used around "right to repair" movement. It sets it off as a recognizable unit as we don't have a single word in english for "right to repair"
Unfortunately right to repair allows competitors including patent ignorers to duplicate, deceive, and dilute. Look at wireless earbuds in a rechargable jellybean case, anyone remember the first company to build them? You can find a hundred knockoffs.
Right to repair is great for consumers and businesses will need to be more ruthless and secret to survive.