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Farmer Lobbying Group Sells Out Farmers, Helps Enshrine John Deere's Tractor Repair Monopoly (vice.com)
Jason Koebler writes: The California Farm Bureau, a group that lobbies on behalf of farmers, reached a "right to repair" agreement with the Equipment Dealers Association (which represents John Deere and other manufacturers) last week. But the specifics of the agreement were written by the manufacturers, and falls far short of providing the types of change that would be needed to make repairing tractors easier. In fact, the agreement makes the same concessions that the Equipment Dealers Association announced in February it would voluntarily give to all farmers. The agreement will not allow farmers to buy repair parts, break firmware DRM, or otherwise alter software for the purposes of repair.
Should have let the California Raisins negotiate instead.
The best part of having the California Raisins represent you, is that if they fail and you are in danger of starving you can feast on the tasty flesh of your negotiation team.
The best negotiators are always the ones with skin in the game, however wrinkly.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Dude. This place is a cesspool of libertarians (both right and left wing). You know what we think about your imaginary property
There is no single "libertarian" view of intellectual property.
Libertarian perspectives on intellectual property.
From the citation: Libertarians have differing opinions on the validity of intellectual property.
I grew up in a farming community, and the political views of farmers is basically: The damn government should keep their hands off my crop subsidies!!!