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Re:Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware ha... by Crosseye_Jack on Friday December 08, 2023 @07:55AM (#38568449)
Just thinking outloud. But if you made it so your competitor couldn't fulfill their servicing contract, then the entity taking out the contract might just very well come to you to solve the problem. You might not win the contract on price, but win it by default because you made it impossible for anyone else to complete it.

That is until your scheme is uncovered because you left the GPS coordinates of your competitors workshops in your code.

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Re:Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware ha... by bluGill on Friday December 08, 2023 @09:13AM (#38569257)
More sanely (not to be confused with likely!) the courts will decide that since this is something only the OEM can do, it must done at no charge as part of normal warranty work.
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Re:Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware ha... by josefx on Friday December 08, 2023 @10:11AM (#38569945)
These trains will be used for decades. Normal warranty wont cover anything of note.
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Re:Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware ha... by bluGill on Friday December 08, 2023 @10:50AM (#38570414)
Warranty should cover this - if the manufacture won't let it be fixed by someone else than in should be free.
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