| ▲ | erelong 4 hours ago | |||||||||||||
In fairness, it's not necessarily a great idea to have as a law as it prevents startups from creating "unrepairable" alternatives on the way towarda a more sustainable repairable future product The ideal is more like a culture of businesses making repairabke products and consumers refusing to buy unrepairable slop | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | liz_ifixit 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||
The law requires that manufacturers have repair material availability parity between their authorized shops and independent shops. Basically, they can't unfairly restrict access to repair materials. A startup isn't prevented from making whatever "unrepairable" alternative it wants. In fact, if it has no repair operation of its own, it's not required by the law to do anything at all. Most startups fall in that category. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | HauntingPin 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||
> The ideal is more like a culture of businesses making repairabke products and consumers refusing to buy unrepairable slop Past few decades have demonstrated that this ideal doesn't work. That's why we have laws. I've never understood why the HN crowd is so averse to forcing companies to account for the common good. It's proven to work. | ||||||||||||||
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