Makes complete sense to me.
Copyright should not mean no right to repair your own equipment.
Smells like BS.
NOW-—THEY need to apply it to JOHN DEERE TRACTORS & OTHER EAUIPMENT
That’s the problem with too many things these days. There is code involved. For most things, no code needs to be involved.
John Deere used to be the worst offender in keeping folks from servicing their own equipment. A huge combine breaks down? No problem. Just bring it back to the dealer (who may be hundreds of miles away) and drop it off for a quick change-out of the broken part and updating the software to recognize the new part. Instead of getting the part shipped to you to bolt into place.
Free market folks will flame me for this, but I do support ‘Right to Repair’ legislation. I’m a main street conservative, not a Wall Street conservative.
Ping!...............
But if we can fix our own cars, we might disable the Deep State’s upcoming controls on our travel (speed, total distance, max distance from home, number of trips, amount of gasoline burned, etc). We certainly cannot have that.
This was also impacting farmers. They could not change a simple thing like a fuel pump with out violating a copyright law owned by the manufacturer.
I read a long, drawn out drama about McDonald’s ice cream machines and why they’re always broken.
There was this guy who reverse engineered the firmware of the machines and was fixing the machines for individual franchisees. Taylor sued him out of business.
Ultimately, it came down to the machine’s four hour sterilization process which will fail if the machine’s internal temperature was off by even one degree, requiring another four hour cycle. If it failed twice, the machine shut down until Taylor maintenance people could come to access the firmware and reset the fault code (at big $$$.)
My new Bobcat skid steer had slots for side lights and was prewired for plug and play lights. Ordered the set for $150 and put them in as easy as can be. The light switch has 3 settings; headlights, headlights plus back lights then front, back and side lights. Would not work. The skid steer was not programmed to recognize the lights! The lights that were prewired in the harness to plug into!. Cost $75 for Bobcat to plug in their laptop and tell the machine to “see” the lights. Companies that buy these machines should simply put it in contract at purchase time. You mess with me and I will sue you the distributor and the manufacturer. They will lose but eventually the manufacturers will stop screwing over the customers. they do it because all their peers do it. Proving once again, that CEOs are the worse people to run any company. Sounds silly? Its simply because a CEO stops doing what they did to become a CEO when they get to the top. Why not? Why rock the boat, you wait 2-3 years and move on before your incompetence catches up with you. CEO’s are afraid of their own shadow trying to protect what they have accomplished. The compensation is insane, why would any CEO make changes when they get to the top.
Now do the same for John Deere.
I’m so old I remember when ice cream was better than today. And you didn’t need a computer to make the soft serve machine work. Dairy Queen had this nailed down solid in the 50s and 60s.
Some guy on YouTube did an indepth investigation into McDonalds ice cream machines. Eye opening...basically they were screwing over the franchise owners. It’s still on youtube.com.
McDonalds cut a deal with a manufacturer giving them sole right to maintain the milkshake machines and that supplier took a reliable machine and intentionally put software locks in that would make it shut down and require a maintenance call when nothing was wrong and the only way to reset the code: call the supplier and wait hours, even days for him to show up, login and then charge then $400. Franchises tried to work around this and McDonalds came down hard on them for it. This isn’t a win for McDonalds corporate, they’re half of the problem. It’s a win for franchisees who were getting extorted by McDonalds and disreputable supplier.
Ever since Trump went to work for McDonalds, they have been making huge improvements.
I worked at a McDonalds while in High School in the late 70’s. Back then the machine was disassembled every night at closing, parts were washed/sterilized, and all of the parts were put into holding trays until the machine was reassembled by the morning crew. Everything was done by hand. I never saw the Taylor machine down back then. This is a case of “progress” making things more complicated for everyone.
They couldn’t repair their own machines? How is that allowed?