 Time here for more systems and one of my favorite stickers on my laptop here is says you own it you point it This has been and this is by the EFF and this has been a long time saying in the hacker world and things like that which is near and dear to my heart we Love the ability to take apart and whether we have the right to do so is called calling the question recently with This video is about but taking things apart having the source code being able to repair and modify The devices that we own is just an essential part to me of being in the tech business And it's essential for the way we do things and that is called in the question Now this is directly related to and I just tweeted out Lewis Rossman's video. I'm gonna link to it below I recommend you watch it as I agree with everything Rossman said start to finish and at 15 video If you're not familiar with Lewis He does Excellent YouTube channel and has a repair business and this directly affects his business and in many ways affects my business as well We are in jeopardy right now They are trying to pass rules and make sure that we have the right to repair But there are those arguing against it and there needs to be some clarifications on this First we should have the right to repair. It's crazy is that sounds companies and Apple and Recently Comtea, but a lot of these major OEMs are deciding that we shouldn't have our right to repair these things that is just Absurd to me. This is something that I've talked about before we've talked about this on probably a couple different YouTube videos I know specifically in February of 2018 on the Sunday morning Linux review podcast that me and my co-hosts We had a discussion regarding tractors because you think oh, you know, Tom's winding He doesn't have a right to repair his phone or Lewis is self-interested in just maintaining a repair business But it goes a lot deeper than that when you look at something along the lines of John Deere tractors John Deere has locked these farmers out of their tractors who have purchased them who want to do a minor repair to them and They don't have enough service technicians to get out there So suddenly they can't plow the field because the tractors locked out because they do not have the right to work on their own tractors That is crazy to me. I am a huge advocate of Being able to repair things not just because of my own self-interest that we spend time repairing things as I have tech all around me But it's essential and it creates more jobs because more people are able to work on these things It's not locked into one vendor. It makes the service ability as far as like getting your phone repaired much more affordable because well If it was only able to be serviced by the authorized official service centers who may choose Not to service it because they say, you know, we don't think we want to fix that device Therefore our solution is buy our new version of that device. This is not the way I think that the world should work and the fact that companies in specifically Comtea as Lewis Rossman highlighted are Just awful for doing this they have taken the money that they take for certifying people and then taken those profits and claiming they're a nonprofit like Lewis points out and taken that and put Lobby money to stop us from having the right to repair I don't understand their position on this because it seems like it would benefit them more to have some type of more Certified repair people but not getting into their politics. I'm just gonna say they're an awful company for doing it now I don't want to just sit here and rant Let's talk about what can be done about it now Lewis. I watched even the Senate testimony hearings that he went through Thank you so much Lewis for doing that. Thank you very much for taking the time as a business owner And it's he doesn't get paid to do this he decided on his own He doesn't have the lobby money to go send the lobby person to go speak for him He took time himself away from the business his personal time or business time for me to look at it to go fight For our right to repair. So, thank you Lewis. Now is Tom gonna do that? I maybe I don't know right now It's that we difficult for me to leave and go do that But what I will do and I will talk about things other people can do is I do donate to the electronic frontier foundation I highly recommend doing that the there at least one group that can do it There are other groups that are pro right repair. I don't have a full list of them I will at least mention the EFF. I'm not gonna do an exhaustive search I just simply donate to them and I will bring this up and here on my YouTube channel and Look, this is important. I'm not just here ranting to hear myself talk I'm here because this affects so much of the tech industry and then the consumers themselves in the end If the right to repair is lost if these OEMs that sell you these common devices that you have You know the MacBooks and such of the world if they win and they look you lose your ability to get these things repaired It's gonna cost you more for repair. You're gonna be pushed into and Locked into very specific repair service centers with no competitive marketplace. This is just not competitive This does not benefit consumers in any way It simply benefits these companies that decide that they can make more by locking you into their exclusivity and 100% now someone will call out I seen Tom you have a Tesla Yes, I do and I'm among the people that are fighting to help hack Tesla's and for the right to repair on them too So don't worry the irony is not lost to me that I bought something that has a known track record But is getting better about service ability. It's not lost to me I'm still an advocate of taking it apart hacking Tesla's and I have friends that I'm you know working on this as well This is not something that I'm skipping over. This is something I believe in as well And this does apply to the automotive industry this even happened right here in Michigan a number of years ago They had a bill that did fail and I signed up and argued this and this goes back to winning me years ago Because I'm also a little bit of a gearhead and I like working on cars and basically they called it the locked hood Is what we used to call it They wanted to make it so dealerships were the only places that could add all service vehicles and no other third party provided This all got shot down, but now we're seeing it again in the electronics world But as we cars in general become larger electronics, trust me If any of these automotive companies could figure out a way to 100% lock you down on things. Well They do it. So this is something that I'm going to keep advocating for and keep donating to the FF And maybe if I can figure out exactly how to do it or be articulate enough and not just rage in front of Some congressional people because Lewis kept his calm in those videos. I am it is Blood boiling because you want to scream as you watch these people come up with lies and spin it including watch the Comtea testimony which is in that Lewis video I'll link below and Yeah, they are not concise. You just want to say shut up. You're conflating issues You're completely mishandling the truth and you're just feeding an agenda, which I don't get like I said It's a it's a lock-in. It hurts the consumers. There's no benefit to this We need the right to repair our things. We need the source code to things I'll go a step further and everything, you know, I'm a huge open source advocate This is one of the reasons I like it. I want to know what went into the code and Over and over again locking it down does not prove to be the best method. We have seen open source companies make money There's not this is not opposed to business. This is not some, you know, way that they're going to Just lose money is a lock-in method so they can absolutely maximize with absolutely no market competition And that's just not the way The way it should go forward. All right, that's my end of rant donate to the FF Watch Lewis's video call your congressman anything else if you can think up to do find other places that are on the You know, pro-rights repair and support them. Thanks