We Can't Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership
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It’s official: John Deere and General Motors want to eviscerate the notion of ownership.
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Farmers Fight John Deere Over Who Gets to Fix an $800,000 Tractor - Bloomberg
What exactly is broken here?
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John Deere Is Facing a Farmer Revolt : r/technews
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John Deere and the Ox-Cart Man - Front Porch Republic
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John Deere tractors (self-)driving the right-to-repair to the wall
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3025D, 3 Series Compact Tractors
We Can't Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership
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Colorado farmers are facing obstacles this wheat harvest season
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TIL that farmers in USA are hacking their John Deere tractors with Ukrainian firmware, which seems to be the only way to actually *own* the machines and their software, rather than rent
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Farmers can't legally fix their own John Deere tractors due to copyright laws - The American Genius
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Farmers drive tractors through Paris in protest at pesticide bans
We Can't Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership