I read the article. What it says is that the present law prevents
John Deere having the right to dictate who repairs their products so they have colluded with an organization to get around the law. It won't go unchallenged. In general, it's the consumer who needs protection against big business, not the other way around. Look how a company that pretends to be Mr Ethical and Reliable, Volkswagen, cheated emission controls and polluted the environment. Of course, I am not saying Canon does this, merely pointing out in a series of posts that they cannot prevent other companies making lenses, flashes, grips etc that work with Canon. They can make it difficult, but they can't stop it.