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I'll add that John Deere is a terrible company, for not only this poor decision, but also because of their stance on "Right to Repair". They manufacture their tractors and parts in such a way, to force farmers to pay for expensive "authorized dealer" repairs only. Locking people out for being able to do routine repairs or repairs that should be self-servicable. They'll intentionally disable the vehicles automatically if "unauthorized" parts are installed or the computer codes aren't cleared after service performed (requiring the dealer equipment).
Read all about them: https://www.qwant.com/?q=John+Deere+right+to+repair+laws&t=web
I'm not sure the best way to combat a company that has a clear monopoly on the markets, but trying to vote with our wallets is never a bad choice, in other scenarios.
Edit: going to plug Louis Rossman from YT, since he's now become a huge advocate for Right to Repair, along with handing out daily redpills (can't tell if he's conservative or liberal, but he absolutely sees the writing on the wall)
https://youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup
What is stopping people from reverse engineering, pirating, or bypassing John Deere software in order to make the necessary repairs or customisations?
Surely it can't be complexity as the open source community would make short work of that. I think the real problem here is the socialist concepts of copyright and intellectual property law that use the public purse and public legal system to prevent people bypassing John Deere. If you were to do away with that then the John Deere monopoly would crumble. Of course, you would be waiving all warranties and would be personally assuming full liability if any changes were made outside of the John Deere ecosystem. We have to stop socialising the costs of running a business.
Remember these new machines are 200-500k+ in some cases and may be on lease. Even if they own it, they need parts and if the dealerships cut them off they could have a large expensive piece of scrap metal for the sake of a $1k part.
Secondarily, hacker culture is typically liberal leaning and city based, not farmers playing as a hobby.
In the right-to-repair/operate side of things, those with certain skills could make alternate 3D parts available to be machined. 3D scan stuff, use CAD to make part models to be shared.
Or reverse-engineer the computers in order to provide alternate operating systems.
If you don't have skills, but there are those who do, people could support them financially.
"Open hardware" is a path forward for this. Search the term for more information.