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.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?