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Are there lower limits on company size?

My friend and I are working on a sort of synthesizer and we have trouble enough sourcing parts for our prototypes let alone having a stock of everything for 7 years!

Our designs are on GitHub and are no secret, we encourage people to build their own. There's no way we could provide parts for that long. The profit on each device after our labor is negligible.

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Set up an entity, ideally non-Californian, and ignore the law. Obviously not legal advice. But if you’re still chugging along in a few years, you can afford to back comply. If you aren’t, there is nothing for a customer to sue.

If you are providing parts to an authorized service center you also have to provide parts for third party service centers. I think if your product isn't designed to be serviced then you're safe.

I had the same reaction, and had to go read the text of the law.

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