[HN Gopher] Watch and share "Fight to Repair" about the dangers ...
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       Watch and share "Fight to Repair" about the dangers of proprietary
       software
        
       Author : Dhikshith12
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2021-07-14 19:56 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | squarefoot wrote:
       | Oh my, that cartoon is just terrible, and fails completely to
       | send the right message by linking the right to repair to a
       | conspiracy theory that, no matter if true or not, diminishes its
       | strength by an order of magnitude. Why not talk about the
       | incredibly linear and simple relation between closed
       | software/hardware that eases planned obsolescence that in turn
       | increases pollution from discarded devices, for example? You
       | cannot talk about evil corps taking control of the world through
       | closed software/hardware and hope to be taken seriously without
       | starting first with a simpler concept everyone and his cat can
       | easily understand and sympathize with.
        
       | nebula8804 wrote:
       | Was that cartoon made by free software? Looks like it ha ha!
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       | On a more serious note, very thankful that orgs like FSF exist. I
       | hate using a lot of free and open software but without it there
       | would be no hope.
        
       | Zambyte wrote:
       | Right to repair for hardware seems to be getting momentum in US
       | legislation. Here's to hoping right to repair for software
       | follows.
        
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