You should have the right to use anything you own the way you want to use it. John Deere needs to get a grip.
It’s official: John Deere and General Motors want to eviscerate the notion of ownership. Sure, we pay for their vehicles. But we don’t own them. Not according to their corporate lawyers, anyway.
In a particularly spectacular display of corporate delusion, John Deere—the world’s largest agricultural machinery maker —told the Copyright Office that farmers don’t own their tractors. Because computer code snakes through the DNA of modern tractors, farmers receive “an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle.
”It’s John Deere’s tractor, folks. You’re just driving it.
via We Can't Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership | WIRED.