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Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it by google234123 on Friday April 30, 2021 @05:06PM (#26999341)
> A short while ago I counted over one hundred x86 motherboards that were current and readily available from just one single manufacturer.... This nonsense is a deliberate marketing ploy and there ought to be definite penalties against it...

This is authoritarian nonsense.

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Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it by michaelmrose on Friday April 30, 2021 @06:43PM (#27000450)
There is no reason they can't have 100 slightly different motherboards they just need to maintain and provide proper docs on the lot and follow other reasonable standards.
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Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it by hilbert42 on Saturday May 01, 2021 @07:34PM (#27010937)
I have already given you a reason, and they definitely don't maintain the docs—so that's another one.
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Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it by hilbert42 on Saturday May 01, 2021 @07:28PM (#27010901)
The only comment I'd offer is that on the political compass you are in a diametrically opposite corner to me (and I'd add to many others in the Right to Repair movement).

Thus we'd never agree and I'd never expect it. So be it.

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