PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?
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@scottalanmiller said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@DustinB3403 said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
The consumer at that point has many options. Fix it if the manufacturer refuses or is unable to, or buy another tractor. (I'm not sure, but I'm willing to bet there is even a clause which says if the software manufacturer refuses to correct a problem, that the consumer can)
No, I know that you dont have that right. You don't have the right to fix it. The "choice" is to double the cost of a tractor for you and gamble again. That's not a viable choice.
he's right, once the government says you can't open the black box - you can't open the black box - period. Now, if the company goes under, and no one picks up the rights to the tech, etc, then you can probably sneak by, but if the company is still open, and they find you opening a black box on an unsupported model.. they could still sue you. Just more more thing as part of the wrongness pile.
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@Dashrender said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@scottalanmiller said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@DustinB3403 said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
The consumer at that point has many options. Fix it if the manufacturer refuses or is unable to, or buy another tractor. (I'm not sure, but I'm willing to bet there is even a clause which says if the software manufacturer refuses to correct a problem, that the consumer can)
No, I know that you dont have that right. You don't have the right to fix it. The "choice" is to double the cost of a tractor for you and gamble again. That's not a viable choice.
he's right, once the government says you can't open the black box - you can't open the black box - period. Now, if the company goes under, and no one picks up the rights to the tech, etc, then you can probably sneak by, but if the company is still open, and they find you opening a black box on an unsupported model.. they could still sue you. Just more more thing as part of the wrongness pile.
But if I believe the black box is causing the problem, I rip it out and get a new one. If the company or licensed dealer won't sell me a new black box, then I will bypass it. If it's something critical to the operation of my tractor, then I'll park it beside the road with a big sign that says "Hunk of junk don't buy these" and I'll find a way to procure a used one from a different brand that doesn't hassle us normal folks that happen to not be afraid to fix broken stuff.
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@dafyre said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@Dashrender said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@scottalanmiller said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@DustinB3403 said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
The consumer at that point has many options. Fix it if the manufacturer refuses or is unable to, or buy another tractor. (I'm not sure, but I'm willing to bet there is even a clause which says if the software manufacturer refuses to correct a problem, that the consumer can)
No, I know that you dont have that right. You don't have the right to fix it. The "choice" is to double the cost of a tractor for you and gamble again. That's not a viable choice.
he's right, once the government says you can't open the black box - you can't open the black box - period. Now, if the company goes under, and no one picks up the rights to the tech, etc, then you can probably sneak by, but if the company is still open, and they find you opening a black box on an unsupported model.. they could still sue you. Just more more thing as part of the wrongness pile.
But if I believe the black box is causing the problem, I rip it out and get a new one. If the company or licensed dealer won't sell me a new black box, then I will bypass it. If it's something critical to the operation of my tractor, then I'll park it beside the road with a big sign that says "Hunk of junk don't buy these" and I'll find a way to procure a used one from a different brand that doesn't hassle us normal folks that happen to not be afraid to fix broken stuff.
LOL - good luck with that
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@dafyre said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@Dashrender said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@scottalanmiller said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@DustinB3403 said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
The consumer at that point has many options. Fix it if the manufacturer refuses or is unable to, or buy another tractor. (I'm not sure, but I'm willing to bet there is even a clause which says if the software manufacturer refuses to correct a problem, that the consumer can)
No, I know that you dont have that right. You don't have the right to fix it. The "choice" is to double the cost of a tractor for you and gamble again. That's not a viable choice.
he's right, once the government says you can't open the black box - you can't open the black box - period. Now, if the company goes under, and no one picks up the rights to the tech, etc, then you can probably sneak by, but if the company is still open, and they find you opening a black box on an unsupported model.. they could still sue you. Just more more thing as part of the wrongness pile.
But if I believe the black box is causing the problem, I rip it out and get a new one. If the company or licensed dealer won't sell me a new black box, then I will bypass it. If it's something critical to the operation of my tractor, then I'll park it beside the road with a big sign that says "Hunk of junk don't buy these" and I'll find a way to procure a used one from a different brand that doesn't hassle us normal folks that happen to not be afraid to fix broken stuff.
There things start at like a quarter of a million dollars, though. You can't casually replace them.
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@Dashrender said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@dafyre said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@Dashrender said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@scottalanmiller said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@DustinB3403 said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
The consumer at that point has many options. Fix it if the manufacturer refuses or is unable to, or buy another tractor. (I'm not sure, but I'm willing to bet there is even a clause which says if the software manufacturer refuses to correct a problem, that the consumer can)
No, I know that you dont have that right. You don't have the right to fix it. The "choice" is to double the cost of a tractor for you and gamble again. That's not a viable choice.
he's right, once the government says you can't open the black box - you can't open the black box - period. Now, if the company goes under, and no one picks up the rights to the tech, etc, then you can probably sneak by, but if the company is still open, and they find you opening a black box on an unsupported model.. they could still sue you. Just more more thing as part of the wrongness pile.
But if I believe the black box is causing the problem, I rip it out and get a new one. If the company or licensed dealer won't sell me a new black box, then I will bypass it. If it's something critical to the operation of my tractor, then I'll park it beside the road with a big sign that says "Hunk of junk don't buy these" and I'll find a way to procure a used one from a different brand that doesn't hassle us normal folks that happen to not be afraid to fix broken stuff.
LOL - good luck with that
picks up phone, dials Fred
Hey Fred, you still got that old John Deere in the back? She still run? She does? Yea. Mind if I borry her or buy her from ya? Yeah, okay thank. I'll be there with a six pack, some money, and a trailer in about an hour.hangs up
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@dafyre said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@Dashrender said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@dafyre said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@Dashrender said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@scottalanmiller said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@DustinB3403 said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
The consumer at that point has many options. Fix it if the manufacturer refuses or is unable to, or buy another tractor. (I'm not sure, but I'm willing to bet there is even a clause which says if the software manufacturer refuses to correct a problem, that the consumer can)
No, I know that you dont have that right. You don't have the right to fix it. The "choice" is to double the cost of a tractor for you and gamble again. That's not a viable choice.
he's right, once the government says you can't open the black box - you can't open the black box - period. Now, if the company goes under, and no one picks up the rights to the tech, etc, then you can probably sneak by, but if the company is still open, and they find you opening a black box on an unsupported model.. they could still sue you. Just more more thing as part of the wrongness pile.
But if I believe the black box is causing the problem, I rip it out and get a new one. If the company or licensed dealer won't sell me a new black box, then I will bypass it. If it's something critical to the operation of my tractor, then I'll park it beside the road with a big sign that says "Hunk of junk don't buy these" and I'll find a way to procure a used one from a different brand that doesn't hassle us normal folks that happen to not be afraid to fix broken stuff.
LOL - good luck with that
picks up phone, dials Fred
Hey Fred, you still got that old John Deere in the back? She still run? She does? Yea. Mind if I borry her or buy her from ya? Yeah, okay thank. I'll be there with a six pack, some money, and a trailer in about an hour.hangs up
We're talking farms here, though. Not ploughing the garden. These things run on GPS, drive themselves, do really complicated things. You can't just swap them in and out or borrow ones. No one has this gear sitting idle, they can't afford it.
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Wait... wasn't the tractor thing a metaphor?
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@coliver said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
Wait... wasn't the tractor thing a metaphor?
Tractors are one of the actual devices affected, specially tractors are massively expensive "irreplaceable" devices that cannot possibly have people "just buy another one" and must be able to fix them to keep farms running and must be able to fix them quickly without delays from vendors and are now heavily covered by DMCA that easily makes them unable to be repaired.
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@coliver said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
Wait... wasn't the tractor thing a metaphor?
To me the tractor is about anything huge in a business.
A great example would be an EHR - it's massive and hugely painful to move from one system to another. Assuming you don't go with cloud solution, instead go with a hosted or self hosted solution, you could find yourselves in a position to have have programmers make changes for you. The same goes for anything really though.
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@scottalanmiller said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@dafyre said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@Dashrender said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@dafyre said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@Dashrender said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@scottalanmiller said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@DustinB3403 said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
The consumer at that point has many options. Fix it if the manufacturer refuses or is unable to, or buy another tractor. (I'm not sure, but I'm willing to bet there is even a clause which says if the software manufacturer refuses to correct a problem, that the consumer can)
No, I know that you dont have that right. You don't have the right to fix it. The "choice" is to double the cost of a tractor for you and gamble again. That's not a viable choice.
he's right, once the government says you can't open the black box - you can't open the black box - period. Now, if the company goes under, and no one picks up the rights to the tech, etc, then you can probably sneak by, but if the company is still open, and they find you opening a black box on an unsupported model.. they could still sue you. Just more more thing as part of the wrongness pile.
But if I believe the black box is causing the problem, I rip it out and get a new one. If the company or licensed dealer won't sell me a new black box, then I will bypass it. If it's something critical to the operation of my tractor, then I'll park it beside the road with a big sign that says "Hunk of junk don't buy these" and I'll find a way to procure a used one from a different brand that doesn't hassle us normal folks that happen to not be afraid to fix broken stuff.
LOL - good luck with that
picks up phone, dials Fred
Hey Fred, you still got that old John Deere in the back? She still run? She does? Yea. Mind if I borry her or buy her from ya? Yeah, okay thank. I'll be there with a six pack, some money, and a trailer in about an hour.hangs up
We're talking farms here, though. Not ploughing the garden. These things run on GPS, drive themselves, do really complicated things. You can't just swap them in and out or borrow ones. No one has this gear sitting idle, they can't afford it.
It's all about the small farms too. Somebody running 100+ acres of farming would have hired hands and neighbors helping in an emergency (yes, I have had family giving and receiving help during rough times).
A big business farm would most likely have a spare, or at least have a licensed repair guy either on staff or on call. The small farmers may not.
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@Dashrender said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@coliver said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
Wait... wasn't the tractor thing a metaphor?
To me the tractor is about anything huge in a business.
A great example would be an EHR - it's massive and hugely painful to move from one system to another. Assuming you don't go with cloud solution, instead go with a hosted or self hosted solution, you could find yourselves in a position to have have programmers make changes for you. The same goes for anything really though.
This is true. Tractors aren't a metaphor though, they are a key example.
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@dafyre said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
A big business farm would most likely have a spare, or at least have a licensed repair guy either on staff or on call. The small farmers may not.
But part of their point was that the licensed repair guy is a problem. That's the whole point. Yes they DO do this, but it's wrong that they have to.
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@scottalanmiller said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@Dashrender said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
@coliver said in PBS Digital: Should Everything be Open Source?:
Wait... wasn't the tractor thing a metaphor?
To me the tractor is about anything huge in a business.
A great example would be an EHR - it's massive and hugely painful to move from one system to another. Assuming you don't go with cloud solution, instead go with a hosted or self hosted solution, you could find yourselves in a position to have have programmers make changes for you. The same goes for anything really though.
This is true. Tractors aren't a metaphor though, they are a key example.
Such a good word to use though, ha ha.
