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The hypocrisy of John Deer is amazing. On one hand, they forbid modifying the software because it "can endanger machine performance" and on the other hand they
by laurent123456 10y ago
The hypocrisy of John Deer is amazing. On one hand, they forbid modifying the software because it "can endanger machine performance" and on the other hand they accept no responsibility for "crop loss, lost profits, loss of goodwill, loss of use of equipment... arising from the performance or non-performance of any aspect of the software".
So what's the point of not hacking their software if the farmers get no benefit from it, not even the guarantee that John Deer will take responsibility in case of malfunction.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoI don't think it's not so much hypocrisy as much as they want to protect their reputation. They can't control what third party software does so they don't want people loading third party software that negatively effects their products thus negatively affects their reputation. I don't agree with it but I can see their angle.
- MaysonL 10y agoAs opposed to what their first-party software does to the farmer's pocketbook (and their reputation). I think they're more interested in their service revenues.
- tripzilch 10y ago> I don't think it's not so much hypocrisy as much as they want to protect their reputation. Wanting to protect a reputation that they refuse to back up by actually providing the guarantees that this reputation represents is exactly the hypocrisy that is being pointed out here. Claiming a reputation without actually providing what the reputation is for, is ... well it's basically a lie, isn't it? As someone said elsewhere in this thread, it would be so much more honest if they'd just lease these things. All these controls on repairs, custom software, they make perfect sense for something that is leased, not sold.