In theory, consumer outreach to only support good actors, but there are two issues there: * It is chicken and egg. You don't get the better UX until you have q

In theory, consumer outreach to only support good actors, but there are two issues there: * It is chicken and egg. You don't get the better UX until you have quality open products to market, and manufacturing the devices may not be that expensive for a new line (at least compared to silicon) but you still need the resources of a billion dollar company. * Consumers buying devices like this will not research quality much before buying. To my knowledge, the vast majority of muggle printer buyers are just picking up something based off a feature list at Best Buy. So you need to persuade a company to invest in innovation in a market without any, and then you need to persuade consumers to actually care about quality. It is the exact same issue with less horribly insecure mobile devices without rootkit backdoor class modems, or more open motherboards, or open hard drive firmware, etc. We would see much higher quality with open development drivers for almost everything, but to see attitudes change you need to present financial incentives, and its really hard to promote something when no product at market exists yet.