Apple's Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repair on New MacBook Pros

Re:Apple's Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repai... by bionoid on Friday October 05, 2018 @05:01AM (#18146708)

> Some of us live to hack, crack and diy. We are jealous of the right to repair, tinker and transform.

Completely off topic, but here in Norway we also have a right to reverse-engineer software if the vendor can't or won't provide what you need to complete an integration. This has been the case since the 1960s if I remember correctly, and it's still in there after revising the law this year.

Ref: Åndsverkloven of 2018 §42 [0] (in Norwegian), https://lovdata.no/lov/2018-06-15-40/§42

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Re:Apple's Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repai... by nojvek on Friday October 05, 2018 @09:56AM (#18148129)

The way I see it US govt won’t enact a law that makes their big businesses worse off (at-least) the current ones.

They brag about how well off the top companies are, valued at trillions and that’s their measuring stick.

But as a consumer, the govt is not for you. If you want repairability, don’t buy from Apple. There is a reason why Apple as a brand is not popular in places where they don’t have Apple stores and good support.

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