Comments by "Martinit0" (@Martinit0) on "Will Young Americans Want to Work in Semiconductor Manufacturing?" video.

  1. Not only has hardware a disadvantage due to lack of "right to repair" but software has very strong unfair advantages that are called "licensing" and "copyright" - purely legal concepts, fictions. Without copyright software would be very vulnerable. It would be difficult to make money with software if everybody could just copy software. Licensing then allows software companies to force upon customers almost arbitrary limitations in how they can use the software and what rights they have (typically almost none). You see, when you buy hardware the manufacturer cannot restrict how you use the hardware, how long, for what purpose and as a customer often you have certain minimum rights in terms of quality of the product (aka warranty). With licensed software you have almost no warranty ("as is") and it is expected and acceptable that software is defective, often without obligation to fix those defects.
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