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Re:Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active s... by LockAndLol on Monday January 25, 2021 @06:48PM (#25910558)
Steve Jobs is rolling in his grave. After working so hard to make repairing Apple devices a pain... and all that work is being undone.

Do these laws take everything repairable into consideration? Last I read, farmers were getting bent over by their farming equipment makers.

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Re:Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active s... by t-writescode on Monday January 25, 2021 @06:52PM (#25910595)
The article points out it farmers as some of the loudest proponents of it.
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Re:Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active s... by voicedYoda on Monday January 25, 2021 @09:50PM (#25911845)
Because John Deere hates RtR, and combines cost over 250k, are a sweet profitable business, and JD wants to control their market
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