A bit old, but a rather interesting take on the right-to-repair issue.
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ANY OTHER TAKE THAN "YES, WE NEED RIGHT TO REPAIR" IS TOTAL HORSESHIT
I will be able to service my products, that I paid for, and own, without Joos telling me I have to take it too a bunch of inferior nerds that don't know a fricking thing
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I ain't no wingcuck. I just want to be able to fully control, service, and upgrade the products I OWN. I know it's not actually da joos but I figured it would work the same
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Stop buying locked-in products, dumb dumb.
"Oh noo! I bought this device that requires a special screw head! This is DIY repair genocide!!"
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This but ironically
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This is propaganda aimed at restricting consumer rights based on the situation at hospitals, and it's not convincing for that case either. All aspects of a hospital's operation are subject to regulations, and adding a few more about necessary qualifications for someone to repair a device, instead of relying on manufacturers to deliberately prevent anyone from repairing a machine, isn't going to hurt anyone, and in fact I would be amazed if such regulations don't already exist. Actually, I imagine that right to repair would have benefits for healthcare, since machine downtime could be reduced by having on-site repair techs instead of having to wait for someone from the OEM to fly out or ship you a part.
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They already have special certifications for in house medical electronics repair.
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This sounds like total bullshit. It presumes that a hospital is required to buy a defibrillator from an FDA-approved vendor, but that it would be allowed to take it for repairs to Jose down the street. No, just add an implicit "buy or repair" to the forefront of the list of the restrictions they face, so that there are FDA-approved repairing services for defibrillators maybe, I don't really care tbh, I care more about my consumer electronics.
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The right to repair bills heeded this article and exempted medical devices
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No where in those papers or discussions are lawyers or hospitals or the FDA themselves saying that the right to repair medical devices shouldn’t be by FDA compliant vendors and servicers. Just that it should include people other than original manufacturers with open system specs.
Yeah she original manufacturers are the only ones who have worked on the machine and it fricks up they are the ones who will be sued? Totally normal and correct.
Where’s the profit in letting others do work on the machines? Original manufacturers will just void all warranties and have systems in place for them to be able to have proof to tell the court they weren’t the last one to service the machine if someone else touches its hardware or software? They can still be sued but it’ll be much harder to get a payout from them if someone else has changed anything or even recalibrated something that wasn’t them.
Not really? Admin passwords and accounts still exist even without right to repair. It’d be on hospitals to not give those out as it is now.
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Then people turn around and complain about health care being too expensive. When "what about muh safety" is a universal acclaim to stop any change whatsoever, then no improvements can be made. This has a real cost, in that it prevents access to healthcare and leads to more deaths. But because these deaths don't leave anybody liable, they aren't accounted for in such analyses. Any medical regulation should require a cost-benefit analysis, which accounts not only for the health increase to those protected by the regulation, but also figures in the health decrease by those excluded from the medical system by it.
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Let them die.
Why'd you think they're in the hospital anyway? They're tto weak for life.
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He's making it seem like right to repair will make getting service by an FDA-compliant vendor will be illegal. Hospitals will still keep whatever maintenance contracts they currently do so that if the device fails, they can point to the contract and say, "We followed manufacturer guidelines. The medical device's failure isn't our fault."
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Snapshots:
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