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John Deere Pays $99 Million To Settle ‘Right To Repair’ Class Action (www.techdirt.com)
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[–] 38 points 6 months ago (1 child)

but this doesn't change anything... fines are just CoO, to large companies. they need to be forced to implement methods to allow consumer repair and maintenance, for all current and past models that are resistant to it, to fix this.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    They are being forced to allow customer repair and maintenance. The settlement requires them to provide outside access to a variety of tools and software, for the next 10 years. Still insufficient, but that's why it's being called a landmark deal. Nothing quite this has happened before, that I'm aware of.

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