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Right to Repair

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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

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A group representing L. Ron Hubbard asked the Copyright Office to alter a repair exemption that makes it legal to hack Scientology's E-Meter—and lots of other electronics, too.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like it's time for someone to make a FOSS E-meter

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

We'll call it libreBullshit