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I wonder, is the a GPL tractor software project out there yet?

• kolokolo 10y ago
  So, we have: 1) Blackbox on-board computers, probably dozens of subtle configuration variations 2) Blackbox binary-only, possibly obfuscated firmware 3) Possibly TiVo-ized runtime. 4) Farmers as the ones who'd possibly be interested. 5) Then, manufacturers could sue for various DMCA violations I'd say the odds of this happening would be some 1e-3 a year. This is a policy issue that shouldn't be attacked technically. Better get the farmer write their Congress members.
• dark_star 10y ago
  I don't know, but there is an open source tractor design: http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/LifeTrac http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/LifeTrac Primitive but think of Linux when it was released. It's part of the Global Village Construction Set, open source machines that could make up the technological basis for a civilization: http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Global_Village_Constructio...
  • sleepychu 10y ago
    Is it self bootstrapping?