It's your device, you should be able to repair it
This article moves the goalposts on what "right to repair" is several times. It generally means that manufacturers should not hide schematics from device users or disallow third party manufacturing of first party parts. However, the author states:> The law doesn't yet cover smartphones and tablets that she says are getting harder to fix. One problem is keeping older devices updated with new software.Now "right to repair" includes not only designing devices to be easier to repair but also includes legacy software support? Where do we draw this line? If your M1 dies, you can't fab one yourself or run older software on it indefinitely.Further down, the author writes:> But markets have now become flooded with products that are less repairable.> "It requires laws in place that prevent manufacturers from stopping [supporting] a product too early, or making it pretty much impossible to repair it by design."Now the author has shifted "right to repair" to mean mandatory first-party device support and design requirements around repair-ability.We must very carefully define our terms here, because requiring someone else to provide on one's behalf presumes a right to the product of their labor.