On Thursday 10 June 2021 00:53:57 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 6/10/21 2:08 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > >> The report and its recommendations may provide a means > >> to pierce the veil of closed platforms, like closed-sourced > >> firmware. > > > > It seems unlikely to me that we will ever see a "Right to Repair" > > for software, firmware or gateware. > > So, why should laws protect the intellectual property of software > companies but not the IP of hardware companies? > > What supporters euphemistically call a "right to repair" is in reality > an initiative against the right of companies to protect their > intellectual property. > > Why should any company take the risk of investment for new hardware > developments when they have to fear that every other company in the > world will get free access to their blue prints? > > The claim that hardware companies intentionally make it hard to repair > consumer products is a conspiracy theory. In reality, a consumer > product is primarily optimized for production costs which implies > cheap capacitors or cases that are glued together. > > Lots of consumers seem to forget that a product sold into the market > not only must cover the material costs but also the costs of > engineering, marketing, customer support, customs, compliance tests > and so on. And in the end, you still want there to be a small profit > left which is what makes the whole business model viable in the first > place. > > If law initiatives also now want to take away the exclusive rights of > hardware designers over their blueprints and hence the market > advantage over competitors that they took an investment risk for, > companies will lose the incentive to design and develop new products. > > Companies aren't charities so in the end they must protect their > investments and have to make profits to survive. > > Adrian
In short, if you are in fact a debian developer as you imply in your sig, something I rather doubt given the thrust of this message, and I was on the controlliing end of debian, the first thing I would do is remove your account. Debian is being poisoned from within if people of your beliefs are allowed to contribute a single byte of code. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
