Unfortunately right to repair allows competitors including patent ignorers to duplicate, deceive, and dilute. Look at wireless earbuds in a rechargable jellybean case, anyone remember the first company to build them? You can find a hundred knockoffs.
Right to repair is great for consumers and businesses will need to be more ruthless and secret to survive.
What does that have to do with RtR? We have endless knockoffs today, as-is, with nothing but cheap manufacturing and copycat products; even if RtR lowered the bar to reverse engineering (which is possible but I'm skeptical that the effect will be significant), make more blatant ripoffs that happen to have slightly better internals?
> Right to repair is great for consumers and businesses will need to be more ruthless and secret to survive.
Or we could legally force it and carry on in public.
> Right to repair is great for consumers and businesses will need to be more ruthless and secret to survive.
Knock-off makers seem to be doing just fine right now by reverse-engineering products. Do you think this is going to make their life much easier?
Well, Syllable D900 were out at least a year before Apple announced theirs. The first ones? No idea.
If somebody is ignoring the law with impunity, new laws are not going to change that.
Sad state of affairs. Media treat headlines like advertising space -- something to be monetized.
