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> Please, EU: bring a law that forces manufacturers to release their drivers / firmware whenever they stop updating a digital device. I don't see much hope of
by ephbit 3y ago
> Please, EU: bring a law that forces manufacturers to release their drivers / firmware whenever they stop updating a digital device.
I don't see much hope of such a thing being decided soon, if ever. The incentives for politicians are mostly not aligned in this direction.
The much more realistic path towards having devices/software that can be used for more than 3-5 years is IMO if more people started supporting projects like postmarketOS, fairphone, shiftphones, Librem, (mntreform for laptops) and other such croud-funded and more open/free designs.
Once such devices/OSes work good enough to be usable in day to day life without serious hassle/disappointments, more people will actually use them and a community can grow, allowing the products to mature.
I think a very good example (in software) is the f-droid app store that has reached a sufficient level of maturity that many people now use it exclusively (instead of the Google play store).
- 2-718-281-828 3y ago> The much more realistic path towards having devices/software that can be used for more than 3-5 years is IMO ... i used any and all of my smartphones that long. no problem.
- crabbone 3y agoThese phones are unusable in a large part because of marketplace lock-in, and in another large part due to unavailable drivers. These things cannot be changed through "grassroots movement", these need to be recognized as mobile phone companies violations of consumer rights and be treated as such.