I was referring in those somewhat disjointed remarks at the end to the interoperability, because interoperability means different things. It's interoperable to the extent of doing what? I'm saying “interoperable” to the extent of making repairs. I hear the corporate side saying they don't want people to modify their equipment and that this might affect innovation. I don't know; it might spur innovation.
In any case, all we're here asking for is the ability of consumers of mass market products to be able to fix them at third party, not necessarily authorized, shops. This is because most consumer items are low value and high volume, and for something like a cracked screen of an iPhone, there's no reason why that has to be done at the Apple Store for $580. It can be done much more cheaply with parts that are just as good somewhere else.
The other parameters that we're talking about.... There's another model. You could go with a whole, full framework, send this back to the department and say, “Give us a full framework and see what other acts it affects”.
At the moment, our experience has been that when you get an opportunity to discuss this software lock, if you will, you should take it off when you can. We had this debate when the Copyright Act was passed last time. There were comments then from consumer groups that we'd be back for the right to repair, and here we are.