“Allowing untrained individuals to modify equipment software can endanger operators, bystanders, dealers, mechanics, customers, and others,” said Ken Golden, a Deere spokesman. He added that customers, dealers, and manufacturers “should work together on the issue rather than invite government regulation that could add costs with no associated value.”
If the owner of the tractor cannot access the software, the tractor is virtually worthless if it breaks down without the OEM providing the needed information. In today's tractors, EVERYTHING is controlled by the software. Engine controls, emissions, DEF fluids, transmissions, hydraulics, hitches, front-wheel drive engaging, front-axle suspension, GPS, auto-steer, mapping, variable rate capability, the list goes on. I've literally spent thousands on my two modern tractors and combine for repairs and can think of only a handful of times I actually physically broke anything. Most times it was a computer or software glitch that had to be straightened out so the component it controlled would act properly. If you have no say in who can work on it then you are pretty much a slave to the OEM. If the machine is under warranty, who cares? But get some age on it and they decide to not support any component or software AND....won't let anyone else have access to the repair information.....now we have a problem.
And when the Deere spokesman says that customers, dealers, and manufacturers "should work together on the issue", Deere's version of "working together" is for all of us to bend over and let them screw us out of our right to own our machinery software and our right to hire whoever we want to work on it. Make no mistake. This is NOT what they want. And I'll say it again, this is the beginning. All of your auto OEMs will follow suite under the same guise of it being a "safety issue" or an imaginary perceived threat to the environment such as an "emissions issue". Gotta scare the soccer moms and tree huggers to get them on their side of the argument. I thought Deere would be above this kind of crap but I guess they also have been too far removed from the farm and rural towns to have any moral values left anymore. Right and wrong be damned. Corporate greed is thy new master.
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