While I understand his point, and crisco definitely is providing money for this - who cares about crisco. They're enterprise level garbage, and you're probably paying for some sort of update service anyway under contract. You discard the stuff because today's stuff is 5x faster.
Singling out crisco is kind of a red herring here. The military examples are just doofuses. You have the biggest hammer in the world and you're letting an oven manufacturer push you around? You suck, and that's sad.
My point is that I should be able and allowed to repair anything for any reason.
You should not be allowed to make it impossible for me to repair (like refusing to provide parts or schematics). Also, they sue you if you RE it or find some "leaked" schematics to repair it yourself. They pay-wall the software too.
This should all be illegal.
I fully agree...but I also understand that there are some things that aren't going to be worth repairing because they are obsolete by industry standards, or parts may not exist anymore.
I can give you the schematics, but if Magic Eyes quit making that CPU because they went out of business, the point is moot.
That is still true but they should still give you the info. Hell, if a company is out of business like that maybe the designs should be made open (if they have been out of business for a defined time that I can't define) so that if some other company want's to spin a fab they can if they are willing to pay for it. I don't see a downside for that.
If we can get all of the niggers out of our way we could have at-home chipfab that would be good enough for a lot of the "older" stuff that you could just DIY.
Crisco has been going after anyone reselling their equipment on eBay and others, trying to end the "grey market". Cisco pushing this is kinda stupid in the first place because no one repairs any network equipment.
I know. That's what I mean by it's enterprise level. Companies are buying this stuff and paying maintenance fees or update subscriptions. When it's defective, it gets tossed in favor of the newest gear which is probably faster and shinier. Cisco is not selling to you or me anymore, not since they dumped Linksys.