So many of the products developed and patented today are invisible. If someone copies a patented Deere logo and puts it on their own companies machinery or caps or tee shirts it's blatantly obvious it was pirated because the copied logo is sticking right out there in plain sight. Pirated software designed to run a tractor is not visual, you can't see it or touch it. If Deere or CIH or Agco don't put some kind of a block in their computers, anyone can plug into the tractor to copy the software they have spent millions on to develop.
Computerized tractors came about because of mostly EPA mandates but that isn't the only reason. We are partly to blame because MOST of us like our modern conveniences. There is a reason why I put the word most in caps. I am perfectly comfortable running my thirty year old tractors in the field, but I will admit I feel like I'm in heaven when I'm at the wheel of an ultra modern tractor with all of its computer controlled
functions. The software programming of the computer in that tractor is the silent invisible patented product we can't see or touch.
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Today's Featured Article - Bad Vibes - by Curtis Von Fange. One of the strangest ways to communicate with our tractor is to ask it how it feels. "Ask it how it feels," you say? Yup, ask it how it feels. Now, as with the other articles in this series one has to be able to hear what 'ole blue' is trying to say in response. The nice thing about our old iron friends is that they are usually quite consistent in their response, rather unlike some people I know who might change what they say due to the weather or other mitigating circumstances. But since t
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