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March 22, 2017 06:10 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/HOsjniWS-2Y/make-hay-while-the-sun-shines.html
Desperate John Deere tractor owners are downloading illegal Ukrainian firmware hacks to get the crops in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwoqN2UzAEg
John Deere is notorious for arguing that farmers who buy its tractors actually "license" them because Deere still owns the copyright to the tractors' software; in 2015, the US Copyright Office affirmed that farmers were allowed to jailbreak their tractors to effect repairs and modifications. (more…)
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