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John Deere to Pay $99 Million in Monumental Right-to-Repair Settlement (www.thedrive.com)

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[–] JakenVeina@midwest.social 10 points 4 months ago

Penalties should be a lot worse than they are, but the requirement to open up availability of tools for 10 years is nice. And the number of about 50% for repair costs being reimbursed is striking, compared to what these kinds of settlements usually pay out. Which, of course, is depressing, in itself.

[–] nobody_special@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm tired of hearing about fines, it's clearly not enough. Start sending these people to prison.

[–] amaryllisfever@lemmychan.org 1 points 4 months ago

And increase the fines.

[–] amaryllisfever@lemmychan.org 4 points 4 months ago

That's about 2% of John Deere's total profit in 2025.