A New Jailbreak for John Deere Tractors Rides the Right-to-Repair Wave
I know more and more farmers are tech savvy and getting acquainted with the tools of the trade — or at least their kids are, but is your average farmer going to know what to do with a root terminal? I’d be worried about further crippling / bricking my six-figure machine. Log dumps are great for troubleshooting, but fixing the problem isn’t necessarily straightforward. And any misstep could be calamitous.<p>I’m all for right to repair and sticking it to John Deere for trying to squeeze farmers, but I don’t see the end goal. A suite of hacked Deere software with various troubleshooting modules? Or is it just going to be a bargaining chip to encourage Deere to further open up its platform?