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John Deere brags about sabotaging competitors & customers on hot mic - they're PROUD of it!
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
You're incorrect with your item number one, as far as being able to take an invention from the drawing board to actual product ready to be sold.
Under the right conditions it can be done for a lot less is what you've stated.
I am "incorrect" with an extreme hypothetical estimate?
on the one hand, :o !!!!!!!
on the other hand, where is your plan to replace john deere on, say, $150m (you said a lot less than 500m, so im picking 150 as 'a lot less')