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Re:U.S. Farmers Are Being Bled by the Tractor Monopoly by bduerst on Monday May 13, 2019 @01:27PM (#19901532)
Yeah, this is kind of faux outrage. John Deere doesn't even have near the monopoly that GP is eluding to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tractor_manufacturers...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tractor_manufacturers

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Re:U.S. Farmers Are Being Bled by the Tractor Monopoly by vajrabum on Monday May 13, 2019 @02:58PM (#19902648)
JD has a monopoly on repairing John Deere tractors and their electronics.
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Re:U.S. Farmers Are Being Bled by the Tractor Monopoly by bduerst on Monday May 13, 2019 @04:41PM (#19903721)
And JD does _not_ have a monopoly on the tractor market as GP was claiming in their nightmare hypothetical.

These are two different things.

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