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| From | Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA |
| Date | 2017-04-24 21:22 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <odmbmp$jqc$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <2d964dc4-d836-4a4d-88f8-6683c57bf6b4@googlegroups.com> <b9ee57fc-df55-4865-bd51-bd9d6bcca11a@googlegroups.com> |
On 4/24/2017 9:08 PM, hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, April 24, 2017 at 6:12:02 PM UTC-7, foxaudio...@gmail.com wrote: >> This is a disturbing development. >> >> https://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/ >> >> We need open source cars, tractors and well... everything now. >> >> B > > If you buy a tractor and get a warranty with the deal, then the concept of ownership is already pretty fuzzy --- that is a lot like leasing --- and, realistically, who is going to buy a diesel tractor and take on the responsibility of repairing it himself? > > BTW: I worked on a cattle ranch not long ago, so I spent a lot of time driving a big green tractor in a slow inward spiral around the hay field. > Apparently there are several reasons for rebelling against this procedure, John Deere charges an arm and leg to repair the tractor but worse yet they make you wait before they repair it, when the harvest is ready you can't sit around waiting a week for John Deere mechanic to show up, so a lot of people are turning to installing hacked software that has no restrictions so the farmers can find out what is wrong and order the parts themselves. -- Cecil - k5nwa
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Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2017-04-24 18:12 -0700
Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-24 19:08 -0700
Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-04-24 21:22 -0500
Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-24 21:06 -0700
Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-24 22:00 -0700
Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 01:48 -0400
Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-24 21:12 -0700
Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2017-04-24 21:24 -0700
Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-24 21:27 -0700
Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-04-24 23:35 -0500
Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-04-24 23:32 -0500
Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 01:54 -0400
Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-04-25 01:10 -0500
Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 12:20 -0400
Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 02:12 -0700
Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 04:51 -0700
Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-04-26 03:42 -0500
Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-04-25 07:39 +0000
Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 12:33 -0400
Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-04-26 14:57 +0000
Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 12:22 -0400
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