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Yes, but “Dieselgate” is not appropriate here because that term has “cheating” loaded onto it, which represents a different struggle for companies than vendor lock-in. What this company is doing is related to DRM and arguably closer to what John Deere does with its products.


The example here includes faking a compressor failure, which is a bit beyond ‘vendor lock-in’.


yeah - this is basically stealing




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