I though copyright laws prohibited the copying and commercial use of material. Surely it is not illegal to alter a code provided you do not sell it.
Anyway most farmers today are probably pushed to know all the operating tricks on todays technology, let alone to start to fix things. Just think about all the software you use in recording. It's hard enough getting it all to work in the first place, and if it broke I wouldn't have a clue how to fix it.
Anyway, software doesn't breakdown, if it stops working, then it has reached a situation for which it was not programmed for, or it is buggy, which means it didn't work properly in the first place.
Which doesn't change things though, software manufacturers have you by the short and curlys

Last edited by sinbad; 04/27/15 11:22 PM.
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