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Originally Posted by Macroni

This is not just a problem facing the auto industry. The issues of technology evolution and service monopoly is also a major problem in the manufacturing industry. Recently we had to rebuild an operating system that was built in 1995 using a Pentium 2 computer. The manufactures solution was an $80,000 replacement combination software and hardware. It was frustrating.

In '95 we just had pentiums... perhaps pentium pro?

That said, while he rambles, picks his feet during interviews, and is near militant about it, you may want to read up (or watch up - but beware the toe jam eating) on Richard M Stallman and the Free Software movement... All the same concept, but with autos, etc. being affected it is no longer just socially inept computer geeks ....

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/21/right_to_repair_win/

http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch07.html