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Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing”
(www.theverge.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Is John deere exempt?
Nah, fuck those mother fuckers. As a former farmer myself, I can tell you that fixing my own shit was an almost life or death situation. I can't just leave my crops without my machines more than a day. Shit needs to work right away. I used to grow rice and it needed constant flow of cold river water for 6 months straight ~~up~~. I had two diesel water pumps on the river, one is running 24/7 and the other is back up in case the other broke. If that shit broke and I waited for a day or two without giving the rice cold water, it all dies. Completely dies
And what's the alternative? You learn to maintain your own equipment and take operation of your powerful and dangerous tools into your own hands, like you do when operating it? You find a local mechanic, like you would with a car, plane, or boat? You keep using the same equipment without paying the manufacturer more until it deteriorates too much to repair?
That's insane. There's not even a subscription involved, it's deranged. Forget your rice, the shareholders need bigger made up numbers!
Yep, according to the article, they have a strong enough ~~lobby~~ bribe machine to win exemption.