Why do people use medium? It seems utterly pointless to write this content then put it somewhere that actively goes out of its way to make sure people can't read it?
But the point is that without the available knowledge online and access to components needed to repair it, it would have remained a dead relic of decades past.
Looks like it was the author's decision. +1 on the irony.
apple also sells kits to repair (and components). Except they do so with high expense, such that they make the same or higher margins on those components than a new buy.
No, i don't believe that information should be gated. The right to repair requires free information, open standards, and commodity components.