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: 1) by Goghit on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:47AM
That is definitely a thing with the older John Deere garden tractors built through the 1970s - 1990s. Superficially they look like the junk lawnmowers sold in front of the big box stores, but they were built to last (and be repaired) so the market for second hand machines, parts, and impliments can be hot at times.
If I was in the market for a new machine it would not be another one from Mother Deere, unless after researching the alternatives they all proved to be into this same line of bullshit.