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Farmers Fight John Deere Over Who Gets to Fix an $800,000 Tractor
Maybe someone can make it live as it is part of what Tweety is trying to explain.
Kenney leads a grassroots campaign in the heart of the heartland to restore a fundamental right most people don’t realize they’ve lost—the right to repair their own farm equipment. By sheer dint of personal passion, he’s taking on John Deere and the other global equipment manufacturers in a bid to preserve mechanical skills on the American farm. Big Tractor says farmers have no right to access the copyrighted software that controls every facet of today’s equipment, even to repair their own machines. That’s the exclusive domain of authorized dealerships. Kenney says the software barriers create corporate monopolies—and destroy the agrarian ethos of resiliency and self-reliance.
“The spirit of the right-to-repair is the birthright we all share as a hot-rodding nation,†he says, channeling his inner Thomas Jefferson and Big Daddy Don Garlits. Tall and trim at 55, with gray-flecked hair and a passing resemblance to a corn-fed George Clooney, Kenney has kicked up significant pushback against the computerization of U.S. agriculture.
Bloomberg trys to portray it as Right vs Left but I can't buy that.
Worth the read if your about done with wuflu for now.
Farmers Fight John Deere Over Who Gets to Fix an $800,000 Tractor
Maybe someone can make it live as it is part of what Tweety is trying to explain.
Kenney leads a grassroots campaign in the heart of the heartland to restore a fundamental right most people don’t realize they’ve lost—the right to repair their own farm equipment. By sheer dint of personal passion, he’s taking on John Deere and the other global equipment manufacturers in a bid to preserve mechanical skills on the American farm. Big Tractor says farmers have no right to access the copyrighted software that controls every facet of today’s equipment, even to repair their own machines. That’s the exclusive domain of authorized dealerships. Kenney says the software barriers create corporate monopolies—and destroy the agrarian ethos of resiliency and self-reliance.
“The spirit of the right-to-repair is the birthright we all share as a hot-rodding nation,†he says, channeling his inner Thomas Jefferson and Big Daddy Don Garlits. Tall and trim at 55, with gray-flecked hair and a passing resemblance to a corn-fed George Clooney, Kenney has kicked up significant pushback against the computerization of U.S. agriculture.
Bloomberg trys to portray it as Right vs Left but I can't buy that.
Worth the read if your about done with wuflu for now.
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