We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership
I work in IT in the car industry and we are part of the GENIVI aliance, see http://genivi.org/> GENIVI® is a non-profit industry alliance committed to driving the broad adoption of specified, open source, In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) software.GENIVI is getting some traction and perhaps this is the an answer to problems like the OPs link explains.