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Re:European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batt... by rendaw on Friday June 16, 2023 @07:49PM (#36365542)
How would _this_ regulation raise the cost of entry? At worst they'd just have to release the source code for the firmware they wrote (putting source code on github takes maybe 5m).
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Re:European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batt... by thrashh on Saturday June 17, 2023 @04:45AM (#36368454)
Source code probably involves libraries from other companies and covers patents owned by other people.

No one is building a product from complete scratch.

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Re:European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batt... by the8472 on Saturday June 17, 2023 @06:54AM (#36369027)
Those suppliers would be subject to the same regulations when supplying to the big players. They should have all that stuff already available once it's in force.
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