I’m totally not following you, Dave...
Ditto...speak more plainly, Dave, without the leaving half the though of what you want to say...still in your head.
I don't understand who would benefit and how...if according to what you are saying, that "Right to Repair" is meant to *prevent* people from repairing old gear, which is EXACLTY what keeps that gear out of the landfills and recycle piles...?
That was/is the great thing about analog gear, especially the earlier stuff...everything was laid out and accessible...most of it was made from readily available parts....there was not "code" that was no longer available...and you needed some basic electronic skills to fix a lot of issues.
What it wrong today, is that no one wants to fix anything. Just throw it out, buy a new one....and it's no secret that "planned obsolescence" part of many designs.
They don't want it to last forever, and they want you to not be able to fix it easily...so you are forces to toss it and buy a new one. That's what is the problem.
Maybe you got that twisted around, and "Right to Repair" is actually looking to force more things to be repaired rather than tossed.
Recent story...
My 50" Samsung plasma TV shit the bed this summer. Now I considered the fact that it was already about 5 years old, and figured it was time for a new one maybe, which kinda pissed me off, since I have small old-school CRT Sony color TV in my studio...which is great for when I want to just chill there or I'm working of non-music stuff, like REPAIRING some piece of gear...and that damn little Sony must be 30 years old, yet here I was think that after only 5 years, it was normal for an expensive 50" plasma to crap out and get replace.
Anyway...I loved the plasma for movies, which is the majority of my TV time...but when I went to look for a replacement, I was shocked to find out that they stopped making plasma TVs, and now EVERYONE only offer the LED crap, which I HATE for movie viewing. Everything looks like it's been shot with high-contrast digital video, instead of 35mm film. Yeah...the LEDs are good for sports, where people like the high contrast and razor edges on everything, but I don't need or want to see the blackheads and nose hairs on the players...so a little less contrast is fine with me. I mean, nothing looks real. If you were at a game with your eyes, you would not see that kind of sharp contrast or color saturation...but whatever...some people like that, and suddenly all the TVs were LED.
OK...cut to the chase...so I decided to see what was wrong with my Samsung, and with a bit of testing and some trial and error, it ended up being the "X" board...which I was able to find online, replace, and the TV was (and still is) back in biz....but it was THAT close to ended up in a landfill, and for most people, it would have, because they wouldn't want to be bothered trying to repair it or hauling off to a TV shop, where they too would probably just tell you to get a new TV.
THAT...is the world we have created with equipment of most any kind. Just toss it out when it doesn't work. So if government is going to prevent when little repairs can be done...it's only going to make things worse....unless this is just coming down from manufacturers who are lobbying so they can sell more product rather than have people fix things.
I don't think that's what this "Right to Repair" is about...but it's on Dave to maybe get the right info since he already said "I know nothing of the proposed legislation"...which he should have, before starting the thread.