cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/15735868
Bill SB 1596 passed Oregon’s House by a 42 to 13 margin. Gov. Tina Kotek has five days to sign the bill into law
Like bills passed in New York, California, and Minnesota, Oregon’s bill requires companies to offer the same parts, tools, and documentation to individual and independent repair shops that are already offered to authorized repair technicians.
Unlike other states’ bills, however, Oregon’s bill doesn’t demand a set number of years after device manufacture for such repair implements to be produced. That suggests companies could effectively close their repair channels entirely rather than comply with the new requirements. California’s bill mandated seven years of availability.
I wonder how this will affect HP printers.
Even with right to repair I wouldn’t want to work on HP printers
Of course, but people still want to put ink and toner into them.
HP printers are literally why we have Linux.
Well, GNU, at least.
Linux in the same way as we wouldn’t have had Obama without 7 of 9’s husband trying to take her to a swingers club.
I don’t think Jack Ryan would have won. Obama had already won a crowded and contentious democratic primary and was a really strong candidate. Ryan, on the other hand, wasn’t a very good candidate and was kinda floundering even before the divorce scandal. This was at a nadir for the Republicans in Illinois because it was after the Ryan/Licenses for Bribes scandal and before Blagojevich. Most of the Republican A-tier had been indicted or had their careers ruined (including Fitzgerald who Ryan was trying to replace) and they were running B-tier candidates.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Oregon’s bill stands out for a provision that would prevent companies from requiring that official parts be unlocked with encrypted software checks before they will fully function.
If signed, the law’s requirements for parts, tools, and documentation would apply to devices sold after 2015, except for phones, which are covered after July 2021.
Like other repair bills, a number of device categories are exempted, including video game consoles, HVAC and medical gear, solar systems, vehicles, and, very specifically, “Electric toothbrushes.”
John Perry, a senior manager for secure design at Apple, testified at an Oregon hearing that the pairing restriction would “undermine the security, safety, and privacy of Oregonians by forcing device manufacturers to allow the use of parts of unknown origin in consumer devices.”
Perry also noted Apple’s improved repair workflow, which no longer requires online access or a phone call to pair parts.
Apple devices will still issue notifications and warnings if an unauthorized screen or battery, for example, is installed in an iPhone.
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From the State that got rid of the 3Rs requirement for HS graduation
