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Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it by scientismer on Saturday May 01, 2021 @03:56AM (#27004294)
That may be so, but you can still buy from the competition.
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Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it by joshspankit on Saturday May 01, 2021 @10:36AM (#27006665)
I feel like you’re either missing critical information about how companies can make that impossible, or you know and you’re “doing a bit”.

Let me say this outright: Sometimes the “competitors” are working together to maintain a monopoly.

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Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it by scientismer on Saturday May 01, 2021 @01:57PM (#27008331)
If they do that, they open a door for another competitor.

Of course it is all a bit more complicated. But by and large it works.

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