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Oregon OKs right-to-repair bill that bans the blocking of aftermarket parts (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/15735868

Bill SB 1596 passed Oregon's House by a 42 to 13 margin. Gov. Tina Kotek has five days to sign the bill into law

Like bills passed in New York, California, and Minnesota, Oregon's bill requires companies to offer the same parts, tools, and documentation to individual and independent repair shops that are already offered to authorized repair technicians.

Unlike other states' bills, however, Oregon's bill doesn't demand a set number of years after device manufacture for such repair implements to be produced. That suggests companies could effectively close their repair channels entirely rather than comply with the new requirements. California's bill mandated seven years of availability.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I wonder how this will affect HP printers.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Even with right to repair I wouldn't want to work on HP printers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

HP printers are literally why we have Linux.

Well, GNU, at least.

Linux in the same way as we wouldn't have had Obama without 7 of 9's husband trying to take her to a swingers club.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I don't think Jack Ryan would have won. Obama had already won a crowded and contentious democratic primary and was a really strong candidate. Ryan, on the other hand, wasn't a very good candidate and was kinda floundering even before the divorce scandal. This was at a nadir for the Republicans in Illinois because it was after the Ryan/Licenses for Bribes scandal and before Blagojevich. Most of the Republican A-tier had been indicted or had their careers ruined (including Fitzgerald who Ryan was trying to replace) and they were running B-tier candidates.

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