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| Company | Fork date | The fork | Options | Choice | Stated rationale | What happened | Judgment analyst | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deere (John Deere) Read the story → verified | 2016-12 | Whether to give equipment owners full repair tools or lock diagnostics behind dealer-only software |
| Lock diagnostics to dealers | Keep the durable aftermarket revenue by controlling the software key needed to authorize repairs | 5 years · 2026-04-06 Class action settlement: Deere agreed to pay $99 million to settle the private class action | reversibility low verdict partial | Electronic Frontier Foundation (2016-12); Investigate Midwest (2024-04); U.S. PIRG (2026-02); U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois (2025-01); U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois / Reinhart Law (2026-04) |
| Intuit Read the story → verified | 2024 | Whether to force QuickBooks Desktop customers onto a recurring subscription model |
| Force desktop to subscription | Intuit could re-price a captive base and expect it to return to growth because those customers couldn't easily leave | Latest · 2024 QuickBooks Online accounting revenue growth: grew 19% for the year | reversibility low verdict held | Intuit Inc. Investor Relations (2024-08); Intuit Inc. Investor Relations (2024-08) |
| Intuitive Surgical Read the story → verified | 2020 | Whether to soften the EndoWrist usage counter by extending core instruments from 10 uses to 12-18 uses |
| Extend usage limits | Softening the most controversial lever before litigation could call it coercive | 5 years · 2025-12-31 installed base of da Vinci systems: the installed base reached 11,106 systems by the end of 2025 | reversibility medium verdict held | Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (2020); Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (2024-01); U.S. District Court, N.D. California (2025-01); Cohen Milstein (court filing summary) (2025-03); Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (2026-01) |
| Marriott Read the story → verified | 2020-05 | How to raise emergency cash during the pandemic collapse: borrow against buildings or sell future loyalty points to card partners |
| Sell future points to partners | Marriott is mostly an asset-light franchisor that does not own its buildings, but its loyalty points are a product it can sell forward for immediate cash | 5 years · 2024-10 FTC data breach settlement: Marriott and Starwood settled with the FTC and 49 states for $52 million and accepted a 20-year security program | reversibility low verdict held | Marriott International / PR Newswire (2020-05); Customer Experience Dive (2026-02); Marriott International Investor Relations (2026-02); Federal Trade Commission (2024-10) |
| Microsoft Read the story → verified | 2016-11-02 | How should Microsoft distribute Teams to compete with Slack? |
| Bundle Teams into Office 365 | Bundling turned Teams from a product you choose into one you must actively decline, spreading top-down through existing Office 365 contracts on inertia rather than enthusiasm. | 5 years · 2025-09 Teams unbundling commitment: Microsoft agreed to unbundle Teams for seven years and widen the price gap between Teams-included and Teams-excluded suites | reversibility medium verdict partial | BleepingComputer (2016-11); SEC EDGAR / Slack Technologies, Inc. (2020); Statista / BleepingComputer (contemporaneous) (2019); Business of Apps (2026-01); European Commission (2024-06); Courthouse News Service (2025-09) |
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