The U.S healthcare system lacks an adequate number of working ventilators to effectively treat the expected influx of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients.

But it’s not just a dearth of ventilators and other critical medical equipment. We need to make sure we can properly maintain devices -- and medical equipment manufacturers have placed obstacles in the way of that.Many manufacturers do not provide access to repair documentation, limiting who can repair the equipment. That discourages third-party medical repair companies or in-house medical engineers from trying to fix things.

“In order to keep equipment that is critical to treating COVID-19 working, with the least possible downtime, medical device manufacturers should immediately release all repair documentation and software, schematics and manuals for that equipment, especially ventilators,” said U.S. PIRG Right to Repair campaign director Nathan Proctor. “The fastest repair service is when hospital technicians have what they need to do repairs in-house, or can hire qualified technicians at their discretion. Preventing repair is generally a bad idea. That is even more true in a crisis, when systems are under stress. It could mean the difference between life and death.”

Device manufacturers and trade associations actively lobby against Right to Repair reforms. For example, a website that posts service manuals for ventilators shows that some manufacturers prohibit the sharing of repair information. Service information could be especially important if hospitals decide to refurbish older equipment as demand peaks. The Society of Critical Care Medicine estimates that there are as many as 100,000 such older ventilators across the country.

https://uspirg.org/news/usp/advocates-say-remove-barriers-fixing-ventilators-other-covid-19-related-medical-equipment

None of requested thing will happen. As money are more important than people lives.

[UPDATE] people make some unofficial documents repository but had been asked by companies to take it all down. And they become badly confused as they can't call copyright and patents bullshit - just afraid.

More strange things

Louis just want slightly better capitalism, where it is nice warm place for him where he repairs stuff until death.

Does not happen.

Law is the will of the ruling class transformed into legal regulations.

Fighting the will of ruling class with "some money" is quite fun idea. No, you won't be able to pull anything. Sadly.

We already saw "smart" ideas of totally dumb legislators who can't grasp perfect ideas, after this idea of totally corrupt legislators and after this idea of legislators who are true representatives of opressed people but are just dumb enough to not realise how to protect them.

It is time to understand that it is INTENTIONAL email and legally made leak to hide Apple nice big plan.

Also I do not understand that is all the fuss? As RfR progress is exactly zero up to this point, nothing archieved with huge amount of time spent.

And I NEVER saw real attack on Apple or other corporation explaining us WHY really they hurt the repair industry. It is always bad managers, you can check other topic on PV for this.

And here it is again idealistic bullshit on making good people who will go against company interests. Does nto work his way.

Here we go again. Bad people, childish logic.

Finally we directly touch economic interests and why in auto industry the fight is much more serious (as third party services are much larger and richer, and auto makers have much less money compared even to Apple alone).

The Massachusetts Right to Repair Committee had already declared victory as of 9 PM, and said in a statement that “The people have spoken—by a huge margin—in favor of immediately updating right to repair so it applies to today’s high-tech cars and trucks.”

It had been serious organizations behind this, and also important that change is tiny and no way it will interfere with fact that most cars will be services by manufacturer approved centers and that all firmware and parts info will be also fully closed.

Ouch, in Xiaomi it is also bad people working, need to replace with good people who watch Louis channel...

Wait, how long you can talk at such bullshit low level not understanding rotten capitalist corps who are doing all this?

It is time to stop blaming ordinary people for the fact that are loosing to the scammers and criminals, as scammers and criminals also known as capitalists are organizing and they are performing ruthless dictatorship (and Louis helps them!).

But if Louis will acknowledge this and will turn his guns against real enemy - his channel will end prematurely and issues with his business will be severe. And he knows it perfectly.

Louis fails to grasp that complexity of devices is so big now and corporations are so large and powerful that it is actually only one good exit from all this mess - it is called communism. Instead Louis constantly slams his head and tries to break from the door that is long closed (since 19th century at least), to nice Wild Wild West of his dreams (not real one of course, just libertarian wet fantasy he sees each nigh along with naked woman).

And same level, sadly.