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Re: The Fight for the "Right to Repair"

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On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Sylvia Else wrote:

> Here in Australia, we have part of it - manufacturers and importers have to 
> ensure spare parts are available for purchase, or risk being sued by 
> customers.
>
> There's no right to documentation that indicates how to determine what's 
> broken, though.
>
> And the minimum replaceable part is often annoyingly large, and priced 
> accordingly. For example, all my washing pump motor needed was new bearings 
> (and they were easily replaceable), but I had to buy an entire new pump. A 
> substantial amount of copper wire, iron and steel needlessly went to the tip.
>
I got a Mac Plus in late 1993 (it was a step up from what I was using, 
event hen) because it had developed a fault in the video section, and 
Apple would only fix it by replacing the board, costing hundreds of 
dollars (though at least they had a replacement board).  I just bypassed 
the connector and soldered the wires directly to the video deflection 
coils, and all was fine.

   Michael

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The Fight for the "Right to Repair" Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-07-14 00:59 +0000
  Re: The Fight for the "Right to Repair" Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-07-14 12:55 +1000
    Re: The Fight for the "Right to Repair" Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-07-14 10:36 -0400
  Re: The Fight for the "Right to Repair" British Rocket Group <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2016-08-06 21:18 +0000
    Re: The Fight for the "Right to Repair" Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-08-06 21:48 -0400
      Re: The Fight for the "Right to Repair" British Rocket Group <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2016-08-07 07:37 +0000

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