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Deere to allow farmers to repair their own equipment

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Re: Deere to allow farmers to repair their own equipment

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https://archive.ph/YbUOC

archive.(today|ph|is) [edit: appears to be down for some people], no clue what's going on

https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/archive.ph.html

The AMP page works if you can't reach it via archive:

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/deere-to-allow-farmers-to-r...

Re: Deere to allow farmers to repair their own equipment

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https://archive.ph/YbUOC

archive.(today|ph|is) [edit: appears to be down for some people], no clue what's going on https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/archive.ph.html The AMP page works if you can't reach it via archive: https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/deere-to-allow-farmers-to-r...

Loads for me from multiple endpoints. Are you using Cloudflare DNS? If so, the site in question blocks DNS queries from CF.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cloudflare+archive.is

Re: Deere to allow farmers to repair their own equipment

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> Should state or federal right-to-repair legislation be enacted, both Deere and the federation have the right to withdraw from the agreement with 15 days’ written notice.

Would be useful to compare the terms of this agreement with draft right-to-repair legislation which has been rejected by Deere and others.

Re: Deere to allow farmers to repair their own equipment

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How generous of them

obviously they smell the direction of the wind. It's obviously better for deere to set the terms of the repairs, rather than have it be dictated to them via legislation.

It's ridiculous that we live in a world where the manufacturer is in the position to set terms of repairs. Once someone buys a piece of equipment it's theirs and they should be allowed to repair and modify it however they see fit.

Re: Deere to allow farmers to repair their own equipment

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> Should state or federal right-to-repair legislation be enacted, both Deere and the federation have the right to withdraw from the agreement with 15 days’ written notice. Would be useful to compare the terms of this agreement with draft right-to-repair legislation which has been rejected by Deere and others.

I am sure this is meant to head that off if possible.

Not unlike how the record companies gave in to the "Parental Advisory" label.

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