The Department of Defense wants to take back its right to repair

The Department of Defense wants to take back its right to repair

Interview transcript: Terry Gerton: You’ve got a new assessment coming out from POGO that looks at the right to repair. We’ll get into the specifics of that in a government application, but first tell me more about what it is and maybe give us a couple of commercial examples. Greg Williams: Sure, so the right to repair is simply an end user’s or an owner’s rights and sometimes tools and equipment necessary to maintain their own equipment. And t…

Texas Is Fixin’ to Fix Repair: Right to Repair Signed Into Law

Everything’s bigger in Texas, even the bipartisan support for fixing what you own. Over the weekend, Governor Greg Abbott signed HB 2963, making Texas the first Republican-led state to enact a Right to Repair law, and the seventh state overall to pass legislation ensuring people can fix consumer electronics they own. The new law gives Texans access to parts, tools… Source