John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair
John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
September 20, 20188m 16s
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Show Notes
The fight for our right to repair the stuff we own has suffered a huge setback. As anyone who repairs electronics knows, keeping a device in working order often means fixing both its hardware and software. But a big California farmers’ lobbying group just blithely signed away farmers’ right to access or modify the source code of any farm equipment software. As an organization representing 2.
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