On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 08:50:35AM -0500, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > > Right to Repair is important. I'm slightly disappointed by the general > reaction on this list. We'll spent lifetimes fiddling with software > configs to keep it running against all odds, but hardware gets short > shrift. I know that processing power and storage improvements have made > it poor business practice to get sentimental about keeping older > computers running, but some curiosity over how repair and replace is a > good thing. We can't live on a growing mountain of e-waste, after all.
I'm with you. The slogan was, after all, Reduce - Reuse - Recycle; and the middle member, RE-USE, is only possible with the ability to repair in the owner's hands. -- Peter King [email protected] Department of Philosophy 170 St. George Street #521 The University of Toronto (416)-946-3170 ofc Toronto, ON M5R 2M8 CANADA http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/ ========================================================================= GPG keyID 0x7587EC42 (2B14 A355 46BC 2A16 D0BC 36F5 1FE6 D32A 7587 EC42) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 7587EC42
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