Steve Wozniak breaks the silence in the repair rights debate in the United States and supports the campaign that will make it easier to obtain parts and repair consumer technology. The Right to Repair campaign works to change US and EU laws, and in the EU some results have been seen.
Now Apple Insider writes that Apple founder Steve Wozniak has broken the silence and speaks positively about the campaign. In a video delivered through the video service Cameo, where you can pay to get answers to questions or receive greetings from famous people, Wozniak talks about how important it is to be able to repair and modify devices. The video is an answer to questions from Youtuber and repair rights activist Louis Rossman, who runs the Repair Preservation Group Action Fund, an organization that actively works for repair rights.
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Apple II came with documentation
– We would not have had Apple if I had not grown up in an open technology world, says the Apple founder.
He misses the time when electronic forms came with computers, so you could see how the systems were built and could easily repair, replace or change components.
Even Apple’s second computer, the Apple II, came with electronic forms. But not only that. Wozniak also says that with Apple II, it came with everything from forms and design to software and code. The machine was Apple’s main product for the first few years, and Wozniak says that the transparency of the software, the code and the hardware did not hinder Apple’s success.
Contrast to today’s Apple
Wozniak no longer works for Apple, and the American technology giant is one of the companies working hardest against repair rights in the United States. Apple’s campaign for control of its devices has previously ended in the Norwegian Supreme Court, there a Norwegian repairman lost after a dispute over parts he had ordered.
Apple has opened up something to third-party repairers, but only if they follow strict rules.
If you want to see the full video with Steve Wozniak, you can watch it here.
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