This is overloading the meaning of the phrase "right to repair". Usually on HN it means some kind of obligation on suppliers, to provide access to documentation or parts. Here it's something else: the client actually signed a contract agreeing
not even to attempt to repair their own devices, which they bought:
> "six of its eight ovens were out of action, and sailors were barred by contract from fixing them themselves"
It's a very different flavor of "right to repair", so I wanted to highlight the language ambiguity.
(Tangentially, food service on a different US aircraft carrier was one of the targets of the "Fat Leonard" contractor bribery ring,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Leonard_scandal (C-f "Former Food Service Officer for the aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington and the Seventh Fleet Command Ship, the USS Blue Ridge")
)
> "six of its eight ovens were out of action, and sailors were barred by contract from fixing them themselves"
It's a very different flavor of "right to repair", so I wanted to highlight the language ambiguity.
(Tangentially, food service on a different US aircraft carrier was one of the targets of the "Fat Leonard" contractor bribery ring,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Leonard_scandal (C-f "Former Food Service Officer for the aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington and the Seventh Fleet Command Ship, the USS Blue Ridge")
)