The ability to modify a vehicle you've purchased is, in many ways, a fundamental part of America's car culture - and, to some extent, embedded in our culture, period. From the Fast & Furious saga to Han Solo's "She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid. I've made a lot of special modifications," we value the right to tinker. More practically, that right can be critically important when it comes to fixing heavy farm equipment. That's why it's significant that companies like John Deere and General Motors have joined forces to argue that no, you don't actually own the equipment you purchase at all.
Um... What? Coming from a background in farming and growing up with an uncle who was (and still is) a farm, this is kind of thing is dumb. Sometimes the software provided in these machines just doesn't cut it. Especially if you are in the field 18+ hours a day.
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Edited to add below information. ~mcg75.
Second source for this story with more in depth information.
The sauce is the boss. I found it using Google (I just searched for [ET]General Motors, John Deere want to keep tinkering, self-repair illegal"). This sauce doesn't have any High Fructose Corn Syrup!
Here's a rather mind-blowing argument by John Deere's lawyers, as relayed by Wired: "The pièce de résistance in John Deere's argument: permitting owners to root around in a tractor's programming might lead to pirating music through a vehicle's entertainment system."
Here's a rather mind-blowing argument by John Deere's lawyers, as relayed by Wired: "The pièce de résistance in John Deere's argument: permitting owners to root around in a tractor's programming might lead to pirating music through a vehicle's entertainment system."
Here's a rather mind-blowing argument by John Deere's lawyers, as relayed by Wired: "The pièce de résistance in John Deere's argument: permitting owners to root around in a tractor's programming might lead to pirating music through a vehicle's entertainment system."
Here's a rather mind-blowing argument by John Deere's lawyers, as relayed by Wired: "The pièce de résistance in John Deere's argument: permitting owners to root around in a tractor's programming might lead to pirating music through a vehicle's entertainment system."
Here's a rather mind-blowing argument by John Deere's lawyers, as relayed by Wired: "The pièce de résistance in John Deere's argument: permitting owners to root around in a tractor's programming might lead to pirating music through a vehicle's entertainment system."
"Don't fix it if it ain't broke".
Didn't it occur to the geniuses they needed to make an unfailing vehicle first before resorting to defense mechanisms?
pretty much, but I found a couple used JD that were a step up in class for the same price, that interested me.
but now I don't care about them as much anymore.
Here's a rather mind-blowing argument by John Deere's lawyers, as relayed by Wired: "The pièce de résistance in John Deere's argument: permitting owners to root around in a tractor's programming might lead to pirating music through a vehicle's entertainment system."
Here's a rather mind-blowing argument by John Deere's lawyers, as relayed by Wired: "The pièce de résistance in John Deere's argument: permitting owners to root around in a tractor's programming might lead to pirating music through a vehicle's entertainment system."
What a face palm. I'd expect this from GM considering the terrible management and questionable ethics the company has regarding human life and saving costs. But John Deere?
Well, when I got look at a new vehicle tomorrow it surely won't be a GM product. I also needed a lawn mower for the summer, and was looking at JD this morning to be specific. Guess they won't be getting my money either.
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I laughed, then I cried, and then I became scared. Because it is morons like this that are at the center of our legal system.
"You don't own the tractor you purchased, because music pirates!"
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