CNN BUSINESS | Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: ‘It’s time to recognize the right to repair’

Hong Kong (CNN Business) – Woz is throwing his weight behind the “right to repair” movement.

Apple (AAPL) co-founder Steve Wozniak, known in the tech world by his nickname, spoke out on the issue during a recent appearance on Cameo, a website that lets fans pay celebrities for video messages.

In a post to Louis Rossmann, a YouTube personality and a right-to-repair advocate, Wozniak said that he was “totally supportive” of the cause — which gives consumers the right and information to fix their own devices — and somewhat “emotionally” affected by it.

“I do a lot of Cameos, but this one has really gotten to me,” he said in the nine-minute video. “We wouldn’t have had an Apple had I not grown up in a very open technology world.”  —read more—