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Doing it for old hardware makes a much more compelling case for the general public to rally behind. For lots of folks, as long as things are working, they don'
by gameman144 4y ago
Doing it for old hardware makes a much more compelling case for the general public to rally behind.
For lots of folks, as long as things are working, they don't care how. Limiting such a law to out-of-support hardware would give a clear value-add of "Your phone stopped working, but if this legislation got passed, it could keep working".
(I personally would love the right to control all my hardware, but that's a much tougher sell.)
- megous 4y agoIf you just limit it to old devices, you're also limiting the pool of people who might be interested in hacking something up for the device to be usable by non-devs later on. You're certainly delaying the porting effort.