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Come Take it, I Deere You
Submitted by Westernerd on Thu, 2015-04-30 03:00
John Deere wrote to 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.”’ You read that right: John Deere owns your local farmer’s tractor because of the zeroes and ones that make up how it functions.
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