content: helpin' him  It's not about him.  It's about the right you and everyone else should have to repair consumer electronics equipment (computers, mostly) at reasonable cost. Sadly, I doubt this will pass because companies that have developed IP have no incentive to release it.  Competition is so crazy these days that a company would basically shoot itself in the foot and be crucified by its investors / shareholders if it provided schematics and a BOM to everyone who asked for them.  I'm in the hardware biz and I can tell you I would never give my designs away, even if required to by law.  I'd rather shut my business down than give away all my hard work so some far east company can pay 1000 engineers 3 cents and a bowl of rice to duplicate my designs.  However, if I had discontinued a product and no longer wanted to offer repair services then I'd be willing to sell the designs to authorized service centers.  But I'd never give them away for free, that is sure.