<story><title>Right to Repair Fight</title><url>https://www.checkbook.org/national/right-to-repair/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>schleck8</author><text>Right to repair is in the best interest of both consumer and nature.&lt;p&gt;Apple&amp;#x27;s design flaw defected my mother&amp;#x27;s macbook panel (flexgate). It was a 5 dollar display cabel that desintegrated after about two years and was built into the panel in a way that rendered the entire display unit unusable.&lt;p&gt;So not only did the repair shop have to throw away the fully functional panel, but also apple tried charging 750 euros for the repair because they have a monopoly on the display supply.</text></comment>
<story><title>Right to Repair Fight</title><url>https://www.checkbook.org/national/right-to-repair/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walnutclosefarm</author><text>Pitty the article didn&amp;#x27;t mention farm equipment manufacturer&amp;#x27;s in their survey of the right to repair landscape.   John Deere is in a multi-state fight with farmers and state legislators over their restrictive covenants blocking farmers from repairing or even retrieving the diagnostic codes on equipment they own.   And we&amp;#x27;re not talking about some $1000 cell phone or laptop here, these are machines that cost $250,000 all the way up to a million plus.</text></comment>