● 05.17.21

●● Right To Repair: When You Don’t Own What You Buy (and Cannot Even Repair It Legally)

Posted in DRM, Videos at 4:54 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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http://techrights.org/videos/Excerpt-B-What-Is-Right-To-Repair-RTbrXiIzUt4.webm

Summary: The second part (see part one) of preliminary background regarding the Right To Repair; our associate who extracted the videos from YouTube [1, 2] says that both are relevant to “Freedom 0″ (as per the FSF’s definition of Free software)

THE ability to repair, maintain and even alter (study and modify) one’s software is a key cornerstone of Free software. It makes software a lot more powerful a lot faster. It takes advantage of a broad collective of users and innovators (or curious users turned innovators).

In the realm of hardware, however, we’re seeing many of the same restrictions that are imposed by proprietary software vendors. Even though Tesla uses GNU/Linux inside cars (let’s face it, most of today’s infotainment systems run some kind of “Linux”) Tesla is aggressively against software freedom. Years ago we wrote about freedom deficit in cars (people losing control over their own cars, even in an age when fewer people are likely to drive, so automobile companies must learn to adapt to customers’ needs and demands, not impose restrictions on them).

freedom deficit in cars

fewer people are likely to drive

“…people need to become better enlightened or aware of the erosion of rights they’ve long taken for granted.”The video above is the last of today’s batch. We may resume or revisit this topic some time in the near future. For the time being let’s just say that people need to become better enlightened or aware of the erosion of rights they’ve long taken for granted. If people stop fighting for or standing up for basic justice, then injustice will prevail and become the “new normal”… █

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