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: 5, Interesting) by HiThere on Saturday February 03 2018, @06:38PM
The family farms that *I* know are on the edge or even losing money. I doubt that any "family farm" makes huge profits from anything legal. no matter how much land they have. Not unless you're talking about a place where the "family farm" is really owned by someone who's a manager rather than a farmer, and has a bunch of employees with less rights than share croppers had.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.