the company was founded by kyle weins after he dropped his laptop while in university and struggled tot i think access to the knowledge of how to repair our things is a fundamental human right. but don't these companies have a right to be like, "you know what, we made these devices, we should be the only ones who can safely repair them?" i don't see any reason that a manufacturer has the right or ability to tell me what i can do with my product. if they want to limit what i can do with it, that they shouldn't have sold it to me in the first place. they sold it to me, it's mine, they took my money! i can take it apart and fix it if i want. if i want to throw it in the river, if i want to paint it pink, i can do that. it is no surprise some of the companies making this product are those opposed to this legislation. part of the argument is keeping their intellectual property confidential, another part has to do with safety. is the person fixing your product properly trained to do so? that worry of course goes away if it is being fixed by somebody that they have trained. but it's notjust a