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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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[–] Tigbitties@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just a salesman. Get the CEO to say it.

[–] Engineer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure they do behind closed doors, but they're much more careful about recording devices.

[–] Fosheze@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] Engineer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago
[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago
[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds similar to what MS did to DR DOS

Their made Windows crash on purpose if it was on top of DR DOS instead of MS DOS. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code

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

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