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Quotation of the Day for November 30, 2015"Normally if I purchase a hammer, if the head of the hammer falls off, I'm allowed to repair it and fix it. I can use the hammer again," Charles Duan, director of Public Knowledge's Patent Reform Project, told me. "For a lot of these newer devices, manufacturers want to say 'We want to be the only ones to repair it' because they make more profits off the repairs. They've found lots and lots of way to do this. Intellectual property law, contracts, end user license agreements, lots and lots of ways to try to make sure you can't do what you want with your stuff." - Charles Duan, interviewed by Vice, on how companies try to prevent product owners from doing their own repairs. [http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-to-fix-everything] Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 25, 2015  |
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