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Originally Posted by mjh215
Many people have compared this to software on a specific platform and rightly so but another analogy I'd like to make is if you were to buy a GM vehicle, GM wouldn't have the right to tell you where you can or can not take it for servicing. You have the right to take it to a Ford service center if you choose.
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Actually, many years ago, if you bought a GM car you had to take it to a GM dealer for servicing, including routine oil changes, or you voided the car's warranty -- or at least so GM claimed when you tried to get warranty repairs. (GM would say things like the problem was caused by poor quality oil, or the wrong oil weight. It was never explicit that you had to have GM do all the servicing.) It took major action by the Federal Trade Commission to end this practice. Today you can take it anywhere as long as you retain proof of having timely and correct service. But I can still remember GM telling owners of the Chevy Vega (aluminum block engines) that when the engines failed because of cracks in the block it was the owners fault for having changed the oil themselves and for having used non-GM oil which didn't meet GM's specifications.