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
(Score: 4, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Saturday February 03 2018, @09:33AM (1 child)
Just wait for the final step: Living as a Service (LaaS). Your body's functions get DRMed, and you'll have to pay a monthly fee in order to be allowed to use the life processes. If you fail to pay, your body gets shut down.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Informative) by BsAtHome on Saturday February 03 2018, @12:06PM
See film: In Time