Right to Repair

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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

I Fix It Repair Manifesto

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Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them (www.theverge.com)

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[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We had this discussion yesterday when this was posted somewhere else. This is not open sourcing. They opened up their api. The code is still very much closed source. Fake info, wrong title.