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Re:European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batt... by Draiken on Friday June 16, 2023 @03:24PM (#36362425)
It's hard to see it happening with how things work today. If companies had to do this they would make an effort to figure it out.
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Re:European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batt... by deelowe on Friday June 16, 2023 @03:35PM (#36362575)
How? How exactly would they figure it out? As someone who works in hardware development full time, often supporting older hardware, I don't see how this is feasible. Most of the IP we work on requires 3 or more parties to be part of the NDA.
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Re:European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batt... by Draiken on Saturday June 17, 2023 @01:24PM (#36372262)
I have no idea. But I know it's not a law of physics so it can definitely be changed.

It's hard to see in the status quo, but it doesn't mean it can't be changed. Whatever system exists today works the way it does because laws defined (or didn't) how they operate. If we change those, the system has to change with it.

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