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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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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @06:35PM (1 child)
I look in the Northern Tool catalog and see smaller non-computerized tractors (and a bulldozer) at good prices, mostly from China. I know, this is no good for corporate mega-farms, they & Deere are IMHO made for each other. Or search 'tractor sale', lots of options. This looks to me to be a problem for people who are fanbois of BigTractorInc.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday February 03 2018, @10:12PM
I think it's not so much actual tractors as specialized equipment that looks like a tractor to a city boy. I've yet to see an actual tractor with even a single microchip on it first hand.
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