I think open source firmware would be healthy for device manufacturers in the long term. Companies who build toasters should be competing on who can build the m

I think open source firmware would be healthy for device manufacturers in the long term. Companies who build toasters should be competing on who can build the most reliable, energy efficient, long lasting, and aesthetically pleasing toaster possible, not on how much data they can harvest and sell. They're also not likely to recruit elite software engineers to write firmware, so the open source alternative will usually be of vastly superior quality.