The thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking

Re:The thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking by gcb0 on Thursday March 23, 2017 @02:02AM (#13937680)

so? they probably sell parts to competitors and vice versa.

for example, a Chrysler pt Cruiser have a engine designed by bmw, made in Brazil and Mexico on foundries owned by Volkswagen.

that's an extreme example, but hope this gives the idea to the downvote army.

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Re:The thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking by weberc2 on Friday March 24, 2017 @12:09PM (#13949882)

> so?

Why are you confused? You said "all manufacturers just assemble readily available parts". I demonstrated that this is not the case for John Deere (or probably any other automotive manufacturer), which builds many of its own components and writes much of its own software in-house.

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