John Deere caught sabotaging competitors & customers LIVE on recording - and they're PROUD of it! by Louis Rossmann

https://youtu.be/uE9X4Vx3xb0

Quote from the John Deere representative:

Here's what happens. Deere sees another company doing this (offering a better/cheaper GPS than theirs) in a year from now they say screw it, we'll rewrite the software so everyone's gotta update their globe (control for tractors) for it to keep working.

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7 Comments

Tigbitties@kbin.social · 14 pts · 2y (3 replies)

It's just a salesman. Get the CEO to say it.

Engineer@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I'm sure they do behind closed doors, but they're much more careful about recording devices.

Fosheze@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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Engineer@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 2y

Thank you!

MisterD@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Sounds similar to what MS did to DR DOS

Their made Windows crash on purpose if it was on top of DR DOS instead of MS DOS. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code

jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 2y

Those were the good ol' days when you could really hate on Microsoft. Fond memories!

Facebones@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 2y

Duh