>> This is a huge win for rural people, open source, and ag-tech. Hats off to Colorado for understanding what's at stake and the brass to fix it.

> Hardly. This never should have been necessary to begin with. It's pathetic that it took so long to reverse.

Are you kidding me? We have been lambasting corrupt politicians who are too greedy to stand against lobbyists and wishing for the right to repair for years and now that it's happened, all you can say is "no big deal, this isn't a win, harrumph harrumph?" Bollocks to you, good sir.

Of course it should have been a given in the first place! However, while I can't speak for you, I myself live in an imperfect world where we must do the best we can with what we have. So if, for a change, elected officials act in the best interests of their constituents to overturn something that you and I both readily agree is a disgusting perversion of the law, YES it's a win, and GOOD FOR THEM. Shame on you.

I mean, I hear you, but freedoms have been incrementally been being taken away from lay people for at least the past two decades. We finally won one, I think if we're going to continue to fight the long fight then we need to drop our salty packs for a bit and celebrate.

It shouldn't be necessary to say freedom is a basic human right but in practice it is absolutely necessary given how often corporations will trample all over it.

Congratulations to Colorado citizens for enshrining those rights into law. I hope this paves the way to enshrining general computing freedom into law as well.