Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Canadian companies like Honeybee already make "front-ends" for John Deere tractors - ...
Canadian companies like Honeybee already make "front-ends" for John Deere tractors - these are the components that turn a tractor into a plow, or a thresher, or another piece of heavy agricultural equipment. Honeybee struggles constantly to get its products to interface with Deere tractors, because Deere uses digital locks to block its products:
https://honeybee.ca/19/
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