Comments by "Keri Szafir" (@KeritechElectronics) on "Right to working eyeballs brought to you by Right to Repair" video.

  1. Kinda. Keeping technology open will help develop it - standing on the shoulders of giants rather than reinventing the wheel because someone wanted to monopolize it.
    7
  2. I read that very article and I totally agree about the considerations. My opinion is that whenever a tech company goes down or discontinues support for a certain product for any reason, they should provide and publish as much documentation as needed to maintain (or even better, mod/hack) their products. Got schematics? Publish those schematics! Got source code, default admin credentials, info on how to interface with the thing, calibrate it etc.? Publish that, period. Recently I watched a video (was it EEVBlog's one? not sure...) on how manufacturers such as Tektronix published bulletins that covered the inner workings of their devices, with elegantly explained theory of operation of different oscilloscope blocks etc. in the '70s, maybe even '80s. Then those bulletins went down because of cost cutting and keeping knowledge private. I'd absolutely love it if this practice came back, it may take different forms (YT videos, wikis etc.), but it'll certainly save a lot of reverse engineering effort that is very hard if not impossible with today's electronics.
    1