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Right to Repair

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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

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Quote from the John Deere representative:

Here's what happens. Deere sees another company doing this (offering a better/cheaper GPS than theirs) in a year from now they say screw it, we'll rewrite the software so everyone's gotta update their globe (control for tractors) for it to keep working.

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[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Those were the good ol' days when you could really hate on Microsoft. Fond memories!