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When written out like this, it seems simple as - but the most simple version really isn't what's at stake. Companies make and trademark specialized tools for their goods, to prevent third parties from providing repairs. Warrantys are written to keep a company from being liable for repair/replacement if a customer attempts to repair a product themselves.
Pretty much every case in the right to repair movement is a challenge to a legally acceptable means of market capture, that just happens to create a stupendously shitty consumer environment.
+1 Insightful
Market capture is unethical in almost all cases. Unlike humans, if a 'for profit' business model can't adapt and survive in a market, then it doesn't need to be put on life support indefinately.
It's like people learned all the wrong lessons from the big beginners of this crud show....(Thanks a lot MS and A**le) This is a major reason of why we can't have nice stuff.