Alabama farmer sues John Deere for ‘right to repair’

Re:Alabama farmer sues John Deere for ‘right to repair’ by GnarfGnarf on Sunday January 23, 2022 @09:29PM (#30053007)

Would "right to repair" also apply to software companies that lock up their customers' data in password-protected databases, which is only known to the company?

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Re:Alabama farmer sues John Deere for ‘right to repair’ by hiptobecubic on Sunday January 23, 2022 @11:42PM (#30053823)

How would it? What have you purchased and what are you repairing?

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Re:Alabama farmer sues John Deere for ‘right to repair’ by GnarfGnarf on Friday January 28, 2022 @02:14PM (#30119043)

I have software that creates a database in a special format, from the data I have entered. I cannot access the data from third-party tools to do custom reporting.

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