“One last question before I buy this product. Is it fixable by me, or does it have proprietary stuff in it that would turn into a copyright problem if I were to try to fix it?”
Linux is thetechnology key
Even if it is a mechanical watch? Integrated circuit?
I thought a court ordered John Deere to make its late model repair technology available to the general public. For a while, if you had a problem with a late model John Deere tractor, you had to take it to the dealer to read diagnostic trouble codes and get it fixed. On the other hand, if you own a Tesla, you can access to the service manuals online, and access the service menu and all of its systems and subsystems. You can even buy components directly from Tesla from the service menu.
If a manufacturer builds a product so that only “they” can fix it, that part of the repair should be permanently warranted. Makes sense if a manuf. says they are the only ones qualified.
Of course if manufacturers were using their heads, they wouldn’t be building such complication into their products in the first place. We don’t need all that junk anyway.