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[–]Tom_Bombadil 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My brother was a manufacturing engineer for John Deere for about 5 years.

He would describe the serious quality issues that they had, and how they often shipped product that had defects of functional flaws. Also, in his opinion many of the aftermarket components were much better quality than John Deere's OEM.

This article does not surprise me at all.

[–]FormosaOolong 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Welp, we had all better start building and maintaining our own stuff, in a delightfully open-source way: https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/

[–]useless_aether[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

i upvoted both insightful and funny, because i agree so much! thanks for the link

[–]DrStrangelove 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The guy behind Open Source Ecology (Marcin Jakubowski) did a TED talk a few years ago. Absolutely inspiring, this is what the future should look like.

[–]FormosaOolong 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

agreed! can't wait for a global society based on benefit for all.

[–]voter 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Would you rather have sex with 50 chicks, be married for 50 years, or be a virgin monk?