I can see why that regulation would be in place though. I don't want heavy industrial machinery coming with "here's how to make it run faster and stronger but ruin the environment, which you definitely should not do wink wink."

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bigstrat2003 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It's a reasonable goal, but I think that one can find better ways to meet that goal than making manufacturers responsible for what the owner of the equipment does with it. That method is just insanely unfair to the manufacturer.

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idiotsecant an hour ago | parent [-]

Can you point to a single case where a manufacturer was held responsible for what the owner of the equipment did with it?

	▲	cucumber3732842 34 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It'll be hard to do because it's like the more restrictive gun laws. It'll never stick so they never take it though court, but they threaten it to get the conduct they want. OEMs have spent huge sums locking down computer systems "because emissions". The EPA has a ton of ways to expensively scrutinize (heavy on the "screw") oems at their discretion so it doesn't really need to be a serious threat, just a warning. Same dynamic as local business vs local code enforcers basically.