Somehow our lord the efficient market decided that maintenance and repair are only for industrial scale things and consumer scale things must be inexorably driven to replace > repair. I sometimes wonder if there’s a deeper fundamental theory there beyond economies of scale. Like, by default the operating assumption of the economy is that almost nothing is worth repairing.
Total quality management made repair pointless for most things - they're perfect at the point of manufacture, and they didn't need to be designed for fixing ("rework") on the production line.
It's all a side effect of quality control.
Most things are.
Me:
Software freedom is about the right to repair, because per rms physical vs software engineering, the complexity of the mechanisms means QC is impossible.
Also the commodification of sw means product market fit is only people with a Lowest Common Denominator and can't meet human needs because they are too heterogeneous and can't be persuaded predicted before usage
https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1151715203370967040
https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1152032995819130881
Me:
Software freedom is about the right to repair, because per rms physical vs software engineering, the complexity of the mechanisms means QC is impossible.
Also the commodification of sw means product market fit is only people with a Lowest Common Denominator and can't meet human needs because they are too heterogeneous and can't be persuaded predicted before usage