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Think you own your stuff? Think again.

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Four decades later, York University professor Russell W. Your choice is either to take your tractor to an approved shop, often at great inconvenience and personal expense, or to essentially hack it — a violation of John Deere’s mandatory licensing agreement , punishable by the company revoking your license for use.

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Microsoft avoided a round of Big Tech scrutiny. Then it bought a company for $69 billion.

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“It’s odd how you can fall out of the field of vision, even though you’re an extraordinarily important company,” William Kovacic, who served as chair of the FTC under President George W. Among other things, the company said it wouldn’t require computer manufacturers to buy other Microsoft products when they bought Windows licenses.