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by smegger001 913 days ago
There are reasons you might legitimately geofence your product, to.prevent them being stoken a war spoils like the Ukrainian tractors and harvesters were by Russia last year, or to prevent them being used in a sanctioned country like Iran. I could see a upper level manager looking at a geofence to made for complying with sanctions and turning around and using it as a anticompetitive tool to prevent third party repairs without a second thought.