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Exactly, and at the moment in time you don't care about "right to repair" - you need to get back up and running now. Which has led me to believe "right to repai

• Cerium 5y ago
  Right to repair tractors has become talking point because it is a use case that cannot be easily dismissed as "unimportant to real Americans" since many Americans value individualism, hard work, and their countries reputation for food production - all of which are idealized in the concept of the independent American farmer.
• supercheetah 5y ago
  A ruse to give people flexibility in how they want to repair their own equipment? What a terrible thing.
• selfhoster11 5y ago
  > Which has led me to believe "right to repair" is a ruse, but for what? You what? Being able to repair and control your hardware is good in itself. It doesn't need to be justified, except as a means to counteract the much stronger lobby that is trying to destroy it. Your point about this maybe being a ruse is like the one that maybe climate change is a ruse: so what if it is? The measures we introduced to combat the (perceived?) threat will result in a net benefit to society, the environment and individual freedoms. Boo, hoo I'm living in a better world unnecessarily. Very tragic.
• CogitoCogito 5y ago
  Nothing about "right to repair" would disallow you to use Deere field service if you want to.
• mikey_p 5y ago
  In one of my other comments I noted that disabling emissions controls would probably be top priority for most of the farmers complaining about not being able to modify how their tractors work.