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Right to Repair

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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

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The FTC Suing John Deere Is a Tipping Point for Right-to-Repair (www.wired.com)
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Today the US Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against farming equipment manufacturer Deere & Company—makers of the iconic green John Deere tractors, harvesters, and mowers—citing its longtime reluctance to keep its customers from fixing their own machines.

“Farmers rely on their agricultural equipment to earn a living and feed their families,” FTC chair Lina Khan wrote in a statement alongside the full complaint. “Unfair repair restrictions can mean farmers face unnecessary delays during tight planting and harvest windows.”

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[–] AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What farming equipment does Europe use?

It feels like this won't fly in the EU

[–] Kr4u7@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Claas and Deutz would be the biggest ones ig

[–] Tbird83ii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

AGCO is the US distributor of many European brands, and they are one of the big three i. The US. I believe they resell Fendt, Massey, Valtra, and Fella (as well as their own brands, and other, smaller US brands).

Also: https://www.agcocorp.com/content/agcocorp/en_US/parts-service/agco-maintenance--diagnostic-and-repair-resources-for-customers.html

[–] AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why don't farmers switch to them? I assume there are laws preventing it, it sounds like JD have a monopoly in the US else farmers would switch

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

IIRC a mixture of inertia (“we’ve always used John Deere”) and some specialty equipment/attachments that only they make and would not necessarily work with other brands

[–] AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

At some point continuing to use a product that abuses you is just your own fault.

I hope a movement starts where they start switching, JD will conform very quickly if their sales tank.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Are you asking why American farmers who want to repair their own stuff don’t switch to European equipment?

All the parts would be in metric!

[–] wieson@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

John Deere, New Holland, Massey Ferguson, Fendt, Claas, Kubota

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

John Deer from talking with my German farming friend