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John Deere memo: Farmers have NOT won, but that won’t stop the news from pretending they did.
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So can someone tell me what actually happened
Figured as much when reading the story and there were a whole list of conditions and limitations on what they could do. Not really right to repair.
I watched a video of this guy like 10 years ago fix some Macbook thing that was made impossible to fix my Apple or something. I’m sure if I went to find it it’s one of those popular things everyone has seen by now. I remember him telling Apple “Fuck you, I win.” which was lol.
To see this guy still standing up for right to repair, outside just the electronics industry, really shows character. Good for that guy.
Why not just boycott John Deere? There are other manufacturers of farm equipment out there.
Louis and his goofy ass chair, man. lol
Reuters
Roiters
Routers
Linksys
Main stream media lying? I’m shocked, shocked I say!
>Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
I’m very surprised to not see any of the top comments speaking about this. The fact that John Deere is threatening individual farmers who speak out for their rights is deplorable. Saying they won’t repair their equipment for speaking out, would ruin them. Farmers run on thin margins and would unlikely be able to buy new equipment after they’ve already heavily invested.
So long as lobbying exists, corporations will always win. And lobbying will never go away because they will lobby to keep it.
Yeah dialogue is a step but John Deere is trying to delay and inhibit state/federal action and it’s increasingly becoming clear to me.
Memorandums of Understanding don’t appear to have enough legal weight so it can be ignored when it’s inconvenient for John Deere.
Last place I’d expect to find a reference to Dota…
I’ve been saying this on every fucking post about this. Nobody fucking bothers to read anything and just reads headlines. No law happened that gave any protections, and I fucking hate how stupid people are that they just take the headline at face value and run with it….
“You cannot afford the oxygen fee, your oxygen will now be cut off until payment is made. Thank you for using Oxygen Inc.”
I have two John Deere tractors one built in 1935 and one built in the 60s, if I choose to use them to farm, I can. My acreage is small enough to use either and they are as basic as a machine can be. I can make any repairs on my own. My brother has a 1954 Ford tractor that can do everything he needs to do. I understand the work that these require is far less than what a newer one needs, in scope and scale, but regardless of the need a quality mechanic should be allowed to work on them. My local Deere dealer’s mechanic fees last year were $145/hr. That clock started ticking when they left the dealer, not when he was in front of the problem piece of equipment. Why should I be restricted to a Deere mechanic? I won’t buy anything new since I don’t need it but I should be allowed to maintain my own equipment once I pay for it.
Loved the part where the politicians also gave themselves a 30k raise.
Let’s get this posted 10 times to the front page just like that fake news was a few days ago.
Huh, I can’t really imagine a dumber PR move than to put this out in this situation. Are they *trying* to rally up anger against them?
Just rip out all the electronics and stick in a Linux box to control the hardware.
Honestly this is disappointing and disturbing and disgusting. As a little kid I thought John Deer was the best of the best. This is garbage.
Some one need to open up an analog tractor supply business and under cut them.
Fuck John Deere
SYSTEM ERROR: Running low on magenta ink. Cannot harvest crops.
A million comments here already but this will happen with cars too.
Reminder: this is not forcing a company into providing individuals with parts or manuals or training 3rd parties to work on their machines/software. This is a fight to keep that legally available at all. If a farmer gets a used machine and reverse engineers all of the major sensors and codes and begins helping his neighbors diagnose or fix their equipment, that could become illegal.
Another example: If you want to replace your graphics card or cpu or monitor on your own PC, regardless of if you have/care about a warranty or not, they would be able to make that action illegal and remove your ability to use your PC altogether as well as take those items off the market for copywrite infringement for other users.
Same thing happened to the grad students striking at the University of California. Funds were misappropriated to fund a propaganda campaign and the graduate students got screwed. Doesn’t stop UC from spreading fake news that we “won.”
This guy is awesome. No frills, puts things in simple terms. Obviously intelligent, need more people to step into the public eye and take a stand in this country
If only Republicans cared about helping farmers as much as they loved parroting conspiracy theories.
Any company that doesn’t let you repair the product you bought at a reasonable rate is a ripoff artist and run by scum.