Re: Binary Drivers

[Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:12:57 CST, Scott Preece said:
> On 12/21/06, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> wrote:

> > How would you feel if you bought a car and then discovered that the
> > manufacturer had welded the hood shut? How many people still do their own
> > oil changes anyway?
> ---
> 
> But there is no legal or moral obligation for the carmake to sell you
> the service manual for the vehicle or provide you with their periodic
> service bulletins...

As a matter of fact, at least in the US, the carmakers *do* have to supply
relevant information for emissions-control systems to alll repair shops:

42 U.S.C. § 7521(m)(5)

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode42/usc_sec_42_00007521----000-.html

Efforts to vastly expand that have been surfacing every Congressional session
for the last few years.  The most recent incarnation:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-2048

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