Its those sort of elements that gets the Pi embedded in lots of places – availability is good, each model has a long long life, and in most cases you can just drop in the newer replacement model – it might be a little more costly than other suitable SOC/SBC, but the support and long term availability mean it works out better in the long run. You also have to ask do the companies from around the world make the right type of machines – farm equipment scaled to a smaller UK field certainly could be used on a bigger field but is really close enough in practical use with the running costs, time taken etc to make the fact its properly repairable and if parts are readily available cheaper and quicker to get back to work with a big enough selling point. Posted in News, Repair Hacks Tagged john deere, legal, right to repair Post navigationĮven if most of them are not you have to figure out the cost and availability of the other brands and their parts near you – if you have to import from Europe/Asia entire machines or parts for them as JD is the local giant you could be waiting days for express air mail parts when you can’t afford the downtime… After all, it won’t simply be of benefit to those who wish to repair their tractor, it might just rescue their now-damaged brand before it’s too late.Ĭurious about previous coverage on this ongoing story? This article from last year will give context. As spectators to its willful unpicking through this misguided use of their repair operation we hope that something like this shareholder move has the desired effect of bringing it to a close. The kind of generational brand loyalty they have among their customers simply can’t be bought by clever marketing, it’s been built up over a century and a half. It’s beyond a doubt that Deere makes high-quality agricultural machinery that many farmers, including at least one Hackaday scribe, have used to raise a whole heap of crops. The question posed by supporters of the shareholder action is that given the substantial risk to investors of attracting a right-to-repair backlash, why would they run such a risk for the only 2% of repairs that remain? We’d be interested to know how Deere arrived at that figure, because given the relatively trivial nature of some of the examples we’ve seen it sounds far-fetched. Now comes news of a new front in the battle, as a socially responsible investment company has the tractor giant scrambling to block their shareholder motion on the matter.ĭeere have not been slow in their fight-back against the threat of right-to-repair legislation and their becoming its unwilling poster-child, with CTO Jahmy Hindman going on record stating that 98% of repairs to Deere machinery can be done by the farmer themself (PDF, page 5) without need for a Deere agent. We’ve covered farmers using dubious software tools to do the job themselves, we’ve seen more than one legal challenge, and it’s reported that the price of a used Deere has suffered as farmers abandon their allegiance to newer green and yellow machines. Their John Deer tractors, a stalwart of North American agriculture, have become difficult to repair due to their parts using DRM restricting their use to authorised Deere agents. Over the years a constant in stories covering the right to repair has come from an unexpected direction, the farming community.
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