We all need to set aside our differences and support right to repair
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Companies are screwing farmers over by telling them lies about being able to repair. Farmers have been doing this for decades and now are barred from doing so? Big corporations must be stopped!
Also from another farmer: As a farmer their is why I buy Kubota. They not only allow me to repair my own tractors and zero turn, they give me a “how to” exploded diagram on repairing that part! I LOVE THEM! Their a lil cheaper, self repair and have lasted longer then ANY Deere we’ve ever owned.
The older generation seems stuck on deere for some reason...
Ironically my dad who is sort of old school like that poopooed JD when I asked him what happened to his old riding lawnmower and why the new one wasn't a JD. I think some people are starting to figure out JD doesn't have their best interests at heart. Pretty sure the only reason his tractor is JD is because its older and he repairs it.
Deere is garbage equipment these days.
The only JD piece of equipment my father ever had on his farm was a 290 pull type swather (one you attach to the back of a tractor to use). Every other tractor, piece of machinery, and even lawn mowers were all various other manufacturers like Case, MF, Roper and more. He would not touch JD because their parts were outrageously priced and always had to be shipped from the United States.
Not every farmer was dumb as to fall into the JD trap.
P.S. A little fun fact about that "green" paint. That particular color of paint is somehow copyrighted much like the way that that particular color or red for Coke is also protected. You want some JD "green" to patch up blotches on your machinery well that's gonna cost you. Also not 100 percent sure on this but I was told by a dealer that they internally call their "green" paint "JD Orange." and I think it also has something to do with the same copyright bull so internally they called it by a completely different color. Keep in mind this was some 30+ years ago so things have likely changed if this was ever true.
Sorry, I was rambling. Carry on.
Because many, many companies have gone from producing quality, long-lasting products to deliberately producing lower-quality products with earlier expiration dates and "planned obsolescence". Greed.
Might be one of the reasons why a new combine costs $900k
WTF. I guarantee me and my dad could fix a fucking Linux anything better than some technician who went to a class and knows nothing about computers. I have 30 fucking years playing with BSDi, HP-UX, SCO, FreeBSD, and Linux systems. Hell my very first computer was SCO Xenix. Linux didn't even fucking exist. Guess who gave it to me? My dad.
I'm headed down to the farm when I move so I guess I'll run into this bullshit soon enough.
SCO - have not heard that in a while - is it still supported? I was an application guy, not systems, back in the day but it seems like SCO was popular in certain sectors because you could get a source copy and make mods + multi-user on a PC. Sorry for the aside - just curious for info from someone more current - I left that life in '93 when things were shifting from text based to WYSIWYG. I worked mostly in the DEC world.
SCO was great up until the late 90s when they were bought out and decided to ditch their old version because it was too hard to upgrade it and bought a monstrosity that barely worked. At the time I wasn't really tracking what SCO was doing and assumed it was still a great OS. I took a job working with it and the biggest problem was that it's network drivers were just utter shit. We were doing Y2K upgrades and the OS itself was the problem. I tried to convince them to let me use FreeBSD and of course they wouldn't.
That's why you don't hear about SCO any more. They imploded. By Y2K their products were junk. I saw it first hand. With Linux and FreeBSD out there and free with no licenses etc there just wasn't a market for it any more.
Thanks for the SCO history lesson, fren.
You can probably make a living jailbreaking tractors.
People would be shocked to know that our military is caught up in the same trap of being essentially at the mercy of tech corporations. The US military cannot repair much of its own equipment. That was partially behind why Trump brought back the B-52 - we can fix the damn things ourselves. This is a huge national security issue and no one is talking about it. I hope this issue over Deere opens that topic up for the serious discussion it deserves.
The U.S. Military Has a 'Right to Repair' Problem
Strange how the japanese sometimes " get it " more than an american company.
They're ahead of us in technology.
Not always, but they master it.
America invents. Japan masters. China copies.