Let's be clear: if people can reverse engineer entire CPUs, there are plenty of folks who are willing to understand the hardware _and_ software involved if it m

Let's be clear: if people can reverse engineer entire CPUs, there are plenty of folks who are willing to understand the hardware _and_ software involved if it means keeping an entire industry running despite hardware manufacturer's best efforts. I'd be more surprised if no one figured out how to write custom firmware and OS functionality once the right to repair is a legal right, than someone botching the job. There's good money to be made by folks willing to put in the time to understand the machinery at the digital hardware level. Money that can't be made by John Deere and friends (because they don't have local offices with quick turnarounds), and so they've taken the "if we can't have it, no one can" stance. Which is decided un-American, really. I'll be happy to see them put in their place by RtR laws, and farmers put back in control of their own equipment.