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janrinok
on Saturday February 03 2018, @05:40AM
from the you-don't-own-anything-anymore dept.
from the you-don't-own-anything-anymore dept.
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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Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly
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Croll's Query:
If tin whistles are made of tin, what are foghorns made of?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @06:35PM (1 child)
Bootstraps, booootstraaaps!
Please look up the origin of that phrase, then try and understand that with megacorps around the available markets become smaller and smaller. The efficiency of scale has taken over markets and made it near impossible to compete.
This idea? It is decent, but manufacturing tractors will require MASSIVE capital. The idea is nice, but not something just anyone could even come close to doing. Keep pushing that meme tho, you are the only one standing in front of your dreams!!!!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday February 03 2018, @10:11PM
Every idea you talk yourself out of before you even attempt it, that's you failing America not the other way around.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.