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The Right to Repair movement is generally associated with electronics, but its latest battle has been fought\u2014and won\u2014on an entirely different front: the ranches of America\u2019s heartland. The issue at hand was a dispute between the Federal Trade Commission and tractor\/farm equipment manufacturing company John Deere, and, specifically, a suit filed jointly by the FTC and five states against the company back in 2025. That suit was settled this week, and the represents a resounding victory for the plaintiffs.<\/p>\n

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The FTC\u2019s statement about the case accused the company of \u201cillegally restrict[ing] the ability of farmers and independent technicians to repair Deere equipment, including tractors and combine [harvesters].\u201d That statement was issued by then-FTC chair Lina Khan, who has since been removed from the position by the Trump administration and replaced by the more \u201cdeal-friendly,\u201d in the words of the New York Times<\/em>, Andrew Ferguson. (She has since served as part of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s transition team.)<\/p>\n

The simple fact of the commission\u2019s decision to take up the fight against John Deere represented some measure of vindication for farmers who\u2019ve spent a decade battling for the right to repair their own vehicles. And as per a 2015 piece for WIRED by right-to-repair activist and iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens, the question of technology isn\u2019t as far from this dispute as one might think. Quoting a filed by the company, Wiens wrote that \u201cbecause computer code snakes through the DNA of modern tractors, [the company argued] farmers receive \u2018an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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The idea that consumers don\u2019t own the software they purchase, but rather a license to operate that software, is unpopular enough in the world of computing. Understandably, the attempt to extend the concept to tractors went down like the proverbial sack of shit with farmers, who\u2019ve spent the millennia since the advent of agriculture being pretty satisfied with the idea that they own the mule they bought from the guy down the road, rather than a license to operate said mule.<\/p>\n

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Nevertheless, John Deere\u2019s eagerness to reap the amber waves of gain that could be had by redefining the concept of ownership has meant that they\u2019ve spent the last decade doing their very best to make it difficult for anyone but authorized dealers to repair their machinery. In particular, as per the FTC\u2019s statement on this week\u2019s settlement, the company \u201cmakes the only software repair tools capable of performing all electronic repairs on Deere equipment\u2026[but] has previously made such tools available only to its authorized dealers, forcing farmers to rely on authorized dealers for many necessary repairs.\u201d And as Wien explained in 2025, those software tools are copyrighted, so \u201cnot only [were] [John Deere] being anti-competitive, it [was] literally illegal to compete with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s all set to change with the settlement reached between the company and the FTC this week. The FTC\u2019s statement on the matter explains that the terms of the settlement require John Deere to \u201cprovide farmers and independent repair providers with the same equipment repair resources, including applicable software capabilities, that it currently provides to authorized Deere dealers\u201d\u2014and to do so \u201cfor the next 10 years and under the supervision of the FTC and plaintiff states.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This is a pretty comprehensive smackdown, and it\u2019s of course no accident that the case was brought by a Biden-era FTC chair. That hasn\u2019t stopped Ferguson\u2019s Bureau of Competition Director, Daniel Guarnera\u2014you can read all about him on the Federalist Society website!\u2014from crowing that \u201cthe FTC will continue fighting against anticompetitive restrictions on American consumers\u2019 right to repair.\u201d Now that the World Cup is over because America lost, Trump himself has been amusing himself positioning himself as a right-to-repair champion, although as ever, there\u2019s precisely no indication that he a) understands what he is talking about or b) is portraying it accurately anyway.<\/p>\n

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