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Right to Repair Gains Traction as John Deere Faces Trial (barnraisingmedia.com)
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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

What Deere did was even more harsh. They tried to block off not only self repair, but third-party firmware that made the tractors work better, especially older ones that were out of warranty.

That's straight up a major federal crime in my country. So that should give Americans an idea how balanced their scale of justice is at the moment.

The consumer and supplier ALWAYS get equal and fair protection, lest a business becomes based on ripping people off with product instead of the product itself.