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Wired has an article which responds to the view of John Deere and General Motors on what the people who buy their vehicles actually own, which was expressed during comments on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA):
John Deere—the world’s largest agricultural machinery maker —told the Copyright Office that farmers don’t own their tractors. Because computer code snakes through the DNA of modern tractors, farmers receive “an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle.”
It’s John Deere’s tractor, folks. You’re just driving it.
Several manufacturers recently submitted similar comments to the Copyright Office under an inquiry into the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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General Motors told the Copyright Office that proponents of copyright reform mistakenly “conflate ownership of a vehicle with ownership of the underlying computer software in a vehicle.” But I’d bet most Americans make the same conflation—and Joe Sixpack might be surprised to learn GM owns a giant chunk of the Chevy sitting in his driveway
(Score: 2) by TK-421 on Friday April 24 2015, @03:19PM
I definitely see your point. My first car was a similar setup to your Dodge...points. I never had any problems with it, but then again I never let the car sit un-started with the key in the run position and it is a Chevy (still got it) so setting point dwell is pretty straight forward.
I contrast that with drivers who routinely let the points burn out by using the wrong key position (engine off key on) and Ford thin-wall Henry's that I never could set a proper point dwell on.
One solid state ignition I would avoid though is Opti-Sparc, that was a turd.