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August (2020), Democrats introduced a bill in Congress to block manufacturers' limits on medical devices, spurred by the pandemic. In Europe, the European Commission announced plans in March for new right-to-repair rules that would cover phones, tablets, and laptops by 2021.

Frame.work created a high quality modular laptop. change ports on the go, change your screen or other parts easily with provided guides. score of 10/10 in ifixit. If you have spare parts, you can order your laptop without it and add it yourself (e.g. disk or network card). All hardware linux compatible.

System76 funds development of FLOSS by providing custom hardware supporting GNU/Linux out of the box. They developed from scratch a Free BIOS alternative (coreboot). By selling laptops easy to repair they raise money to develop their ubuntu-derivative (Pop!_OS) optimized for their machines