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Daniel Gibson

@ShadowJonathan
This is great, but I don't get what the point is of demanding hardware parts for longer than software updates - once a smartphone stops getting security updates, one shouldn't encourage using it any further.

Especially if there is no requirement to open source all required software (drivers), so the community can take over maintaining it.

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Daniel Gibson

@ShadowJonathan
Two things the law is missing, IMHO (at least according to the linked page):
* Drivers should be opensourced when the vendor stops supplying updates (or preferably earlier, maybe when they stop selling the device?)
* Batteries should be replaceable by the user with simple/cheap tools (or without tools)

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