Propose substitute House bill 2279 which is H draft 35 11.1, deals the
availability of information and materials for independent repair of
digital electronics. products
Our slogan is really that you have the right to repair not to modify.
That there's simply other things involved in the bill such
as embedded code, that are is proprietary as you mentioned, and I think those are
concerns for not only the equipment dealers but also the manufacturers.
code isn't scary to me. I see code all day of my life and it's really nothing more
than when I was working under my impalas hood and working on a carburetor or
trying to juice something up with it. The biggest gains an IT have come from
people that have open sourced their code that have allowed other people to come
tinker with it and create new innovation that then other companies that are more
established end up taking and rocketing up, because they've got the
financial wherewithal to do it. But when you stifle that, you really get a
corporate dominated scenario that says based off of budgets you can only
develop one way and you prohibit any American innovation to really come into
the field. Which is really what happened if you think about back in the 1950s and
1960s when people really started to get into the hoods of the cars, look at what
innovations we really have. I believe it's one of the things that really
stifles our ability to see innovation in green energy or any type of thing.
Because we've really stifled the ability for the average American to get in and
and show us their their brilliance