On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 11:54 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > This is not as off-topic as it may seem. In the US, the FTC just > issued a report that favors consumers.
A link to the report and related discussion: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/reports/nixing-fix-ftc-report-congress-repair-restrictions/nixing_the_fix_report_final_5521_630pm-508_002.pdf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068574 > 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. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
