So you buy a car for $50,000.00 - that doesn't mean you get the software you need to monitor and fix it. In fact you don't get that vital component of the product you purchased. Instead, the dealers get the software - so you are a captive of theirs.
You really didn't buy all of the car, you just bought the part you can see.
Now non-dealer repair garages in Massachusetts have had enough. There is a movement through out the state - backed byi independant repair garages and auto parts stores lilke Auto Zone - to pass legislation requiring the software to be publicly available at no cost.
We have been suckers for too long, don't you think? Why shouldn't you get and own the necessary software code to monitor and repair the car you (think) you own? "F ree Enterprise" is the song we sing...but it's a phony song -- cuz "monopoly" is the way we do - and our federal congress and senate and Supreme Court back up the corporate citizen just about every time they can.
Money =1 Vote not citizen = vote.
Go Tribe!
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