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Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly

posted by janrinok on Saturday February 03 2018, @05:40AM   
from the you-don't-own-anything-anymore dept.

linkdude64 writes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8JCh0owT4w

When it comes to repair, farmers have always been self reliant. But the modernization of tractors and other farm equipment over the past few decades has left most farmers in the dust thanks to diagnostic software that large manufacturers hold a monopoly over.

Farmers using Eastern European cracking software for their tractors, and MS, Apple, etc. want to stop them.

Related: Right to Repair

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• Re:How different is was Re:How different is was (Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Saturday February 03 2018, @08:16AM (2 children)

  by Dr Spin (5239) on Saturday February 03 2018, @08:16AM (#632412)

  Their pride was that a tractor could be in an obscure place and still should be fixable by the farmer who bought it himself..

  If you want that now, buy Indian made product.

  Someone is heavily involved in Making America Crap Again

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  Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!

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• Re:How different is was Re:How different is was (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @08:51AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @08:51AM (#632424)

  Constituting America Crap Again?

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  • Re:How different is was (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @09:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @09:02AM (#632854)

    Whoosh? CACA! (Hispanic slang for feces.)

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