then maybe hardware vendors should contribute their code so that API could be changed all along, instead of keeping it paywalled. Though, I doubt they want peop

then maybe hardware vendors should contribute their code so that API could be changed all along, instead of keeping it paywalled. Though, I doubt they want people to look at how poor quality they are. And yes, my job was also to "integrate" custom drivers for our appliances bells and whistles (eg. fail-to-wire interfaces, hardware sensors, etc.), in our source tree.