It's a good start.
Pisses me off that laws are required for this, but that's what we get for being ruled by the Epstein Class.
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F.cking Great News! Next: forcing every product to be open source, and durable. 100 years for a product is not a dream. We already have products, used for more than 50 years.
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Well done Europe! It should make it possible for other industries too!
Libertarians in shambles.
Started as a good idea to regulate industry for the benefit of consumers. Ends up with so many paid-for loopholes it's mostly useless.
The cynic in me thinks the only reason the law was created from the start was to extort money from big companies.
This law still has a lot of good things in it. Calling it useless is what those companies would want you to do.
Why have a list?
Just make everything repairable.
Some items, to safely repair, need a degree and training
Such as microwaves, which if you fuck up, you've either made a bomb or a radiation leak
Because they were paid a lot of money to exclude certain products.
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