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The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair

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568 points rntn | 1 comments | 18 Oct 24 16:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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chasil ◴[18 Oct 24 17:39 UTC] No.41881693[source]▶
There was also a fatality in the last workplace strike.

Deere seems to have bad relations with their employees, customers, and regulatory bodies.

The shareholders should remove the board of directors.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2021/...

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onlyrealcuzzo ◴[18 Oct 24 19:02 UTC] No.41882429[source]▶
The shareholders don't care about any of that if they think the board did a decent job of propping up the stock price.

Firing a board is generally risky, and the shareholders probably haven't fired them because even though the board has, almost objectively, not been good - firing them is likely even worse for the stock short term, and there aren't a lot of long-term, active investors left in the world.

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chasil ◴[18 Oct 24 19:21 UTC] No.41882589[source]▶
The board's goal was to lock-in maintenance with computer security, which failed catastrophically. All previous generations of Deere tractors have on-board electronics that can be jailbroken.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/16/john_deere_doom/

Just for that failure, they should all likely be gone.

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1. jauntywundrkind ◴[19 Oct 24 01:14 UTC] No.41884859[source]▶
This post appears to be complaining that John Deere didn't do a good enough job DRM'ing their tractors? We should fire them and fine even worse dictators, who will draw even more ire & rage?

This does seem like capitalism at work. Still, I really want to hate the players and the game. This has been brutal extractive malevolence against an industry supporting the very base of the pyramid of needs: John Deere is hurting the world incredibly badly.