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Re:Colorado passes agricultural Right to Repair by thomastjeffery on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:00AM (#35539789)
...and the alternative had no consequences? Get your head out of the sand.
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Re:Colorado passes agricultural Right to Repair by eru on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @08:39PM (#35549267)
The alternative is to let people make their own decisions about what to buy and what contracts to enter.

If there's some other regulation standing in the way of making that useful, perhaps we should dismantle that one, instead of adding more?

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Re:Colorado passes agricultural Right to Repair by thomastjeffery on Thursday April 13, 2023 @08:37AM (#35554448)
That's not an alternative, that's the status quo.

There is no regulation standing in the way of allowing customers to repair their property.

What is standing in the way is a perverse incentive.

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Re:Colorado passes agricultural Right to Repair by eru on Friday April 14, 2023 @04:07AM (#35566811)
Those perverse incentives might come from some regulation. (Perhaps intellectual property laws..)
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