Re: "Right to Repair" vs FRUs

On Wed, 02 Oct 2024 07:54:47 -0700, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:

On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 23:43:30 -0700, Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
wrote:
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Is it safe to assume that any Right-to-Repair legislation (US)
would *not* require finer-grained subassembly availability
than that available to their depots?
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I.e., if the *documented* repair policies don't call for
replacing a particular component with another but, instead,
indicate replacing the containing FRU, then one would
likely never have to make the "particular component"
available to customers?
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Said another way, consumers should never be expected to be
able to use the vendor as a general purpose "parts warehouse"
at any level finer than the documented FRUs...

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It would be cool to be able to buy all of those custom chips.
Especially if one wants to build and sell cheap knockoff products.

It won't benefit boat-anchor devotees like myself, whatever happens.
Expecting Tek or HP to supply a custom chip for something they sold
30, 40 or more years ago? Not likely at all.