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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: 0s | source
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aucisson_masque ◴[18 Oct 24 22:08 UTC] No.41883935[source]▶
I'm not and do not know American farmer so I'm asking a genuine question, why did they keep buying Deere tractors ?

I know for a fact that there are competitors, in Europe we have many other brand of tractors. It would make no sense to buy something that you know you can't repair.

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userbinator ◴[19 Oct 24 00:25 UTC] No.41884640[source]▶
JD is like the IBM of farm equipment.
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1. NemoNobody ◴[20 Oct 24 05:18 UTC] No.41893063[source]▶
Ahh, IBM - another great example of a company that attained a near universal adoption by setting the standards of quality - literally established what we thought a computer was and then just went to shit.

IBM couldn't get their supercomputer/AI that McDonalds funded to correctly run a drive thru - the project was literally shelved. It can play chess tho ;)