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Re:U.S. Farmers Are Being Bled by the Tractor Monopoly by throwayEngineer on Monday May 13, 2019 @12:29PM (#19900909)
If they went out of business, you could buy and install third party boards.

Not that I like that John Deer is the Apple of Farming, but let's not act like people can't hot wire and program electrical systems.

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Re:U.S. Farmers Are Being Bled by the Tractor Monopoly by lithos on Monday May 13, 2019 @12:36PM (#19900968)
It's not that simple when everything runs on software including cylinder firing and timing.
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Re:U.S. Farmers Are Being Bled by the Tractor Monopoly by opencl on Monday May 13, 2019 @01:50PM (#19901795)
There are companies that will sell you an entire diesel-electric hybrid drivetrain to retrofit into old tractors, and autosteer systems to go with it. It is not cheap though.
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Re:U.S. Farmers Are Being Bled by the Tractor Monopoly by throwayEngineer on Monday May 13, 2019 @01:08PM (#19901331)
Where did I imply it was simple?

Writing a controller is a non trivial task. But it can be done.

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Re:U.S. Farmers Are Being Bled by the Tractor Monopoly by Dirlewanger on Monday May 13, 2019 @03:24PM (#19902948)
We are absolutely no where near this reality for some industries, and sadly may never be. See how fervently Apple is fighting consumers being able to repair their devices.
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