The manufacturer should release any documentation necessary for 3rd party developers to adapt their operating systems or other software. This is to enable e.g.

The manufacturer should release any documentation necessary for 3rd party developers to adapt their operating systems or other software. This is to enable e.g. Linux developers to create all necessary drivers by themselves. Nobody asks manufacturers to build any special features. They should not be allowed to prevent 3rd party developers from adapting their software to a new platform. If a platform is not capable of running e.g. Linux and there is no malice, then manufacturer should not be required to add anything to accommodate other operating systems. For example if someone releases an ARM laptop, they should not be required to create a translation API for SPARC just so that an ancient OS could be run, but they should give enough documentation so that someone could adapt an operating system capable of running on that platform by themselves if they wish so.