It's your device, you should be able to repair it

Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it by criddell on Friday April 30, 2021 @12:35PM (#26995704)

If we are going to allow software patents on the basis that software is a device, then laws affecting physical devices should apply to software as well.

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Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it by joshspankit on Friday April 30, 2021 @12:51PM (#26995934)

I’m curious but don’t know what laws you’re suggesting. Could you dig a bit deeper?

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Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it by criddell on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:03PM (#26996118)

I was thinking about right to repair laws. What's the analog for schematics when you are talking about a software device? It's going to be something like source code or API documentation.

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