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This is the kind of thing that will destroy a nation's manufacturing industry overnight.

Who in their right mind would buy kind of equipment from a Polish company knowing that this kind of nonsense is both widespread and that their legal system has no solution?

Hoestly, "Dieselgate" is not a fitting corollary for this travesty. This is considerably more sinister. Hopefully whatever happens from here will be an agent of change for the better.

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Newag is actually trying to expand into Italy and a few years back they sold (and already delivered) 11 of their Impuls 2 trains (newer variant of the ones described in the article) to Ferrovie del Sud Est. I'm really wondering whether they got the same extortion software as the ones in Poland or did they maybe spare a new client on a new market.

Aren’t we all doing this when we buy software from the cloud?

No? When using the cloud we are renting resources and can (in theory) switch providers as we wish. Here they bought a machine that vendor purposefully broke after some time or with purpose to disable competition from doing their job.

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