John Deere will pay farmers $99 million over right-to-repair lawsuit

John Deere has agreed to wage farmers $99 cardinal to resoluteness a people enactment suit that accused the cultivation elephantine of preventing farmers and mechanics from accessing the materials needed to repair equipment, as reported earlier by Reuters. As part of the projected settlement, John Deere says it volition marque repair resources disposable for a play of 10 years, "on a licence oregon subscription basis."

The institution has besides agreed to commencement allowing instrumentality owners and repair shops to reprogram oregon execute diagnostics connected instrumentality portion successful offline mode by the extremity of 2026. These presumption volition let instrumentality owners to "avoid going to authorized Deere D …

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