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Oregon | BMW, for one example. With about $40 in hardware + a smartphone. But Hoss- this is not my fight. If you, a non-JR dealer, can just buy the equipment to service new Deere equipment and you have access to software necessary to diagnose issues and recognize replacement components, then you are good to go. But I'm guessing that if that was the case, there would not be an entire movement to force Deere to unlock those systems.
There is a massive legal battle going on right now by people who own the equipment and believe that ownership includes more than a mere license to use the software. They disagree with the position that when you buy something, you only lease the software.
If you read the article linked by the OP, I believe the farmer makes the analogy to an injection pump. In the past, he owned the tractor and the injection pump. If he wanted to modify the pump, he could. Now, if he modifies the injection map, Deere can (will?) sue him for theft of goods because the modified map was how Deere differentiated between tractor models (everything else, in that example, was the same).
Again- I find it interesting, but it is not my fight.
-Mike
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Farmers fight John Deere
