<spanclass="text__notice">I originally wrote this post as a class assignment, and while I believe the information here is accurate, I have some qualms about the ideas it presents - mainly that it focuses largely on Apple, while in actuality, Right to Repair is about a whole lot more. I plan to expand on this in a future post, covering its implications in more detail.</span>
<divclass="card card-accent"><pclass="card-body">I originally wrote this post as a class assignment, and while I believe the information here is accurate, I have some qualms about the ideas it presents - mainly that it focuses largely on Apple, while in actuality, Right to Repair is about a whole lot more. I plan to expand on this in a future post, covering its implications in more detail.</p></div>
The consumer’s “right to repair” is becoming an increasingly relevant issue with technical products
and devices in modern society. Large corporations like Apple have formed an exclusionary environment
<spanclass="text__notice">Aptoide seems to have taken down the webpage that this post disputes - I've updated the link to open a copy stored on archive.org.</span>
<divclass="card card-accent"><pclass="card-body">Aptoide seems to have taken down the webpage that this post disputes - I've updated the link to open a copy stored on archive.org.</p></div>
<spanclass="text__attention">About a week ago,</span> Aptoide created the website
<spanclass="text-large">About a week ago,</span> Aptoide created the website
["GooglePlayFair.com"](http://web.archive.org/web/20190605045259/https://googleplayfair.com/) as part of what
<spanclass="text__notice">Many of the criticisms I made in this post have since been addressed - see the <ahref="https://ethicalsource.dev/definition/">Ethical Source Definition</a> for updated information about the movement.</span>
<divclass="card card-accent"><pclass="card-body">Many of the initial concerns described in this post have since been addressed - see the <ahref="https://ethicalsource.dev/definition/">Ethical Source Definition</a> for updated information about the movement.</p></div>
<spanclass="text__attention">The influence of ethics</span> and moral views in
<spanclass="text-large">The influence of ethics</span> and moral views in
open source software has recently seen somewhat of an increase in relevance and
discussion. Many people
[have tried to argue](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/30656)