Comment on Google Will Now Back Right-to-Repair
legios@aussie.zone 5 months agoProblem is I imagine a lot of their hardware is under NDA so they’re unable to. I appreciate what they’re trying to do but a lot of hardware companies sadly won’t allow them to publish a lot of things. I do wish there was more open-source hardware (and I say that as a huge open-source advocate)
Companies like Fairphone would love to open their drivers so distros like PostmarketOS could add support that then mainline Linux can be ported. But they can’t somehow.
I guess Apple would have a much better time in that having their own design and being much bigger in influence.
Toes@ani.social 5 months ago
We need regulations that prohibits such actions.
We already have patents to protect companies, they don’t need to keep their software and schematics secret.