Our Right to Fix

[davidbrady]

Folks,

Here's an article from Motherboard: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/artic...n-firmware that illustrates the mess manufacturer's are getting consumers into with their license agreements, warranties, and unauthorized repair stance. Farmers are forbidden from repairing their own tractors; JD wants to control the equipment even after it's been purchased. JD can remotely shutdown tractors for violations, so the Farmers are going to Eastern Europe for hacked software that allows them to work on their tractors! Who wants to buy new products that are locked by the manufacturer? This is one of the big drivers of open source hardware and software. One commenter said, "we need an open source tractor", just as we motorcoach owners need field serviceable and owner maintainable products in our motorcoaches. Again, this is what leads me to declare and work toward our Trace SW Inverter as the "open source" inverter platform for our buses.