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Re:We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership by roel_v on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @11:53AM (#9414902)
The market handles this just fine, and shows us that in practice, this is not the problem armchair-lawyer nerds are making it out to be.

The whole OP is disingenuous - the issue is not who 'owns' the tractor. The issue is with the licence of the software that runs it. That doesn't change anything about the ownership of the tractor. Shoddy reporting, designed to appeal to the prejudices of their audience.

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Re:We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership by c22 on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @07:19PM (#9417818)
The entire point is that this dichotomy seriously blurs the lines of "ownership" in new and potentially harmful ways.
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