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> Close that car hood citizen, there are secrets in there, don't make me taze you.

Auto makers originally tried to prevent car owners from servicing their own cars or taking them to third parties to be serviced. It took a legal struggle and legislation to enshrine the rights of ownership that car owners take for granted.

Or at least took for granted. A new legal struggle is turning around the right to repair modern cars that make extensive use of processors and proprietary software.

http://blog.fosketts.net/2010/07/29/walled-gardens-gilded-ca...



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