Farmers join " right to repair" movement
This kind of connects to my Luddite post from yesterday. As ,I think is well known, most farmers repair much of their own equipment. Farm equipment makers use copyright laws protecting the software in newer farm equipment. It seems much new farm equipment is loaded with software and when problems happen with the equipment only a licensed repairman from the company may repair it , leaving the farmers waiting for the repair. This has apparently cause older farm equipment to be in demand and farmers asking that they be given the "right to repair". I have a retired friend who was a software engineer, he had to call the company repairman to repair his tractor!