Farmers look for ways to circumvent tractor software locks

Re:Farmers look for ways to circumvent tractor software locks by arca_vorago on Sunday April 09, 2017 @09:52PM (#14075449)

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

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Re:Farmers look for ways to circumvent tractor software locks by dark_star on Sunday April 09, 2017 @10:36PM (#14075605)

I don't know, but there is an open source tractor design:

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_Constructio...

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Re:Farmers look for ways to circumvent tractor software locks by sleepychu on Monday April 10, 2017 @05:16AM (#14077043)

Is it self bootstrapping?

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Re:Farmers look for ways to circumvent tractor software locks by kolokolo on Sunday April 09, 2017 @10:19PM (#14075551)

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.

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